Some viruses doom caterpillars to a horror movie demise. These viruses force caterpillars to climb to the tops of plants, where they die. There,...
Jake Buehler
From mules to ligers, the list of human-bred hybrid animals is long. It’s also ancient, with the oldest of these being the kunga. Its...
The world’s largest known colony of breeding fish has just been discovered off the coast of Antarctica. It’s some 500 meters (1,640 feet) below...
Being quite small, insects can deal with the air-water boundary far differently than larger animals do. Surface tension allows water striders, for instance, to...
A mass of strange ferns grips a trunk high among the treetops. They look like a giant tangle of floppy, green antlers. Below their...
Sea urchins are underwater lawnmowers. Their never-ending appetites can alter whole coastal ecosystems. Normally they eat algae and other underwater greenery. But these spiny...
