Weird Animals
Hollywood Has Nothing on These Real Life Halloween Horror Shows
Face-unfurling, chest-exploding, zombie-making fiends: They're all around us
Magnificent Millipede Has 414 Legs and Four Penises
Meet <i>Illacme tobini,</i> a newly described species of millipede discovered in a cave in Sequoia National Park
Wild Monkeys Unintentionally Make Stone Age Tools, But Don't See the Point
Scientists observe a “unique” human behavior in wild animals
10,000 Scrotum Frogs Found Dead Near Lake Titicaca
Over 10,000 of the world's largest water frogs were found dead along the Coata River, a tributary of the heavily polluted lake
How Bats Ping On the Wing—And Look Cute Doing It
Researchers reveal how bats turn echolocation signals into a 3-D image of moving prey
Behind the Scenes at the National Zoo With the World’s Most Dangerous Bird
The zoo's cassowary “still has that mysterious aura about her—that prehistoric, dinosaur-walking-through-the-rainforest-quality."
The Strange Reappearance of the Once-Vanished Green Sea Turtle
It's a conservation biology riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a hard shell
Adiós, Toughie: The Last Known Rabb’s Fringe-Limbed Tree Frog Dies in Atlanta
Since his discovery in 2005, Toughie the frog has been the face of amphibian extinction
North America Used to Have its Very Own Hyena
These giggly beasts didn’t just roam Africa and the Middle East. They were right here in our backyard
The Animals That Venom Can’t Touch
Meet the creatures who look into the face of venomous death and say: Not today
What Living Like Goats and Badgers Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Two Englishmen won the Ig Nobel Prize for eating grass, earthworms and worse in the name of science
Over 180 Countries Just Approved a Ban on Pangolin Trafficking
It’s a big win for a weird little creature
Paleontologists Probe the Bonehead that Foreshadowed Domed Dinos
This striking skull shape evolved at least twice. But what was its purpose?
Addict Ants Show That Insects Can Get Hooked on Drugs, Too
How researchers got a non-mammal hooked on drugs for the first time
Male Widow Spiders Prefer Younger Ladies—So They Don’t Get Eaten
This strategy means they live to mate again, upending assumptions about these arachnids
Captive Komodo Dragons Share Their Teeming Microbiome with Their Environment, Just Like Us
Komodos could be the perfect model for studying host-microbe interactions
Identical Twin Puppies Confirmed for the First Time
Two Irish wolfhounds from South Africa shared the same placenta and have the same genetic makeup
I Am Officially in Love With Cockroaches
And after you read this, you will be too
Adorable Stubby Squid Found Off the Coast of Southern California
Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus happened across a particularly cute stubby squid
Give it Up, Sneaky Males: These Lady Fish Have You Outwitted
Female ocellated wrasses have developed a surprising trick to control who fathers their offspring
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