Animals

  1. Animals

    These mystery mounds are actually giant piles of earthworm poop

    The grassy mounds that dot a watery landscape in South America are created by giant earthworms, a new study finds.

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  2. Animals

    Hornbills join toucans in the cool beak club

    Like toucans, southern yellow-billed hornbills keep things chill with cool beaks.

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  3. Animals

    The bizarre mating ritual of a bee parasite

    Stylops ovinae insects — parasites found in mining bees — have short lives filled with trauma.

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  4. Animals

    Some animals ‘see’ the world through oddball eyes

    Purple urchins, aka crawling eyeballs, are just one of several bizarre visual systems broadening scientists’ view of what makes an eye.

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  5. Life

    How the Galápagos cormorant got its tiny wings

    Galápagos cormorants’ tiny wings may be due to altered reception in cellular antennas.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Scientists wrestle with possibility of second Zika-spreading mosquito

    It’s hard to say yet whether Asian tiger mosquitoes will worsen the ongoing Zika outbreak in the Americas.

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  7. Animals

    ‘America’s Snake’ chronicles life and times of iconic timber rattlesnake

    America’s Snake looks past timber rattlesnake’s fearsome reputation and delves into the fascinating biology of this iconic serpent.

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  8. Animals

    Vultures are vulnerable to extinction

    Life history makes vultures more vulnerable to extinction than other birds, a new study finds, but humankind’s poisons are helping them to their end.

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  9. Animals

    History of road-tripping shaped camel DNA

    Centuries of caravan domestication and travel left some metaphorical tire marks on Arabian camel genes, researchers find.

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  10. Animals

    Crocodile eyes are optimized for lurking

    Crocodiles hang out at the water’s surface, waiting for a meal. A new study shows their eyes are optimized for spotting their prey from this position.

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  11. Animals

    Cause of mass starfish die-offs is still a mystery

    Sea stars off the U.S. west coast started dying off en masse in 2013. Scientists are still struggling to figure out the cause.

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  12. Animals

    Why Labrador retrievers are obsessed with food

    A genetic variant could explain obesity trends seen in Labrador retrievers.

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