Animals
- Animals
Paleontologists find the first fossilized egg inside an ancient bird
For the first time, paleontologists have found an unlaid egg inside an ancient bird fossil. That egg may have caused its mother’s death.
- Animals
Desert kangaroo rats ninja-kick attacking rattlesnakes
High-speed cameras reveal desert kangaroo rats’ lightning-fast defensive moves.
- Animals
A new fossil shows how hagfish went back to basics
A new fossil hagfish shows these animals aren’t as primitive as researchers had assumed.
- Animals
When parenting goes cuckoo
Brood parasites are animals that trick another species into raising their young. This is known among birds, fish and insects.
- Animals
The smell of fear may make it hard for dogs to track some people
Genes and stress may change someone’s scent, confusing search dogs.
- Animals
Warming pushes lobsters and other species to seek cooler homes
Plants and animals are moving toward the poles, changing timing of important events and more — all in response to climate change.
- Animals
Have we found bigfoot? Not yeti
Believe in bigfoot or sasquatch? The scientific evidence says bears are to blame for traces of yeti and abominable snowmen. But it’s ok to keep searching.
- Animals
This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey
By winding up its web like a slingshot, this spider achieves an acceleration rate far faster than a cheetah’s.
- Animals
Spiders’ weird meals show how topsy-turvy Amazon food webs can be
Rare sightings of invertebrates eating small vertebrates upend some assumptions about who eats who in the Amazon rainforest’s complex ecosystem.
- Animals
The world’s largest bee was lost, but now it’s found
Wallace’s giant bee hadn’t been spotted in the wild in almost 40 years. Now, scientists have found it again.
- Animals
How these maggots efficiently demolish a pizza
Mobs of black soldier fly larvae create a living fountain that lifts slowpoke noneaters out of the way.
- Animals
Hermit crabs are drawn to the smell of their dead
A new study finds that the smell of hermit-crab flesh attracts other hermit crabs desperately looking for a larger home.
