Animals

These are our favorite animal stories of 2025

Crafty cockatoos, extra shaggy mice and spiders with lethal puke are among the creatures that amazed us

Two very shaggy golden colored mice stand atop the Colossal Bioscience logo.

These adorably shaggy mice were gene edited to more resemble their woolly mammoth doppelgängers, including trying to give them a higher tolerance to cold temperatures.

Colossal Bioscience

By Carly Kay

From caterpillars disguised as the dead to narwhals that play with their food, here are the animal tales that we loved in 2025.