Animals

Animals

Great Galloping Crinoids: Lilylike sea animal takes a brisk walk

A sea creature called a stalked crinoid may look as motionless as a flower on a stem but a video has revealed it practically jogging across the ocean floor. Video.

Animals

Cool Birds

Emperor penguins go to such extremes to cope with life in Antarctica that they've inspired interesting science as well as a hit movie.

Animals

Proxy Vampire: Spider eats blood by catching mosquitoes

Researchers studying food preferences among spiders report finding the first one with a taste for vertebrate blood.

Animals

Baited camera snaps first live giant squid

For the first time, researchers have photographed a living giant squid in the wild.

Animals

Looks Matter: If swallows aren’t spiffy, mates’ fidelity is iffy

If a male barn swallow's plumage is more attractive than that of other males, his mate is less likely to have furtive flings with other wooers.

Animals

Balls of Fire: Bees carefully cook invaders to death

Honeybees that defend their colonies by killing wasps with body heat come within 5 degrees C of cooking themselves in the process.

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Perfect Match: Tied contest gives fish no hormone rush

A male fish produces a burst of hormones as he fights off an intruder, but this surge isn't triggered simply by fighting.

Animals

Bumblebee 007: Bees can spy on others’ flower choices

Bumblebees that watched their neighbors feast on unusual flowers often later checked out the same kinds of blossoms themselves, a behavior that amounts to social learning.

Animals

What’s That Knocking? Sound evidence offered for long-lost woodpecker

Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from the woods of eastern Arkansas that researchers say could be the distinctive drumming and calls of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

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Hey, kids, it’s time for drool

A researcher has for the first time decoded a vibrational signal used by paper wasps.

Animals

When a chipmunk teases a rattlesnake

Several of the Northeast's least ferocious forest creatures taunt rattlesnakes.

Animals

Faithful voles have hidden infidelities

Prairie voles, used for studying the biological basis of monogamy, do form social bonds but they also have more out-of-pair sexual encounters than most biologists had expected.