Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science journalist who contributes to venues such as The New York Times, Smithsonian, Wired UK, Scientific American, Slate and The New Scientist, among others. She holds a master's degree in ecology and specializes in writing about all things furry and wild, though she also dabbles in health and tech. She has traveled to 48 countries and lived in six of them. When not hunched over her laptop, she enjoys taking photos, cooking catfish and working on her deadlift form. She lives in Brooklyn with a large orange cat and a computer programmer.