We pick our Top 5 from the new list of plants and animals announced by the California Academy of Sciences
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Benvenuto, beavers! Furry friends are back in Italy

Scientists came across a beaver in the wild for the first time in the country in 500 years


Wombats poop cubes and we know how they do it

If there was ever an animal destined to make poop adorable, it had to be these marsupials


Tiny baby octopus found, saved by scientists

Turns out that when you pick up trash even more good things happen than you might expect!


Why the ice on Europa may not be nice

The moon of Jupiter may have a massive underground ocean, but a new report says that studying it could be extremely difficult


What a Wondiwoi world!

British photographer Michael Smith just saw the rarest species of one of the rarest types of mammals on Earth—tree kangaroos!