Animals

Keyhole wasps like to build their nests in tiny holes, including the openings of devices used to measure the speed…

Looking like a cross between a ferret, a skunk, and a porcupine, the African crested rat may be adorable, but it…

When a rare white female moose was found dead in northern Ontario, Canada, along a remote service road last month,…

An extensive survey of deep waters off the coast of Australia has resulted in a trove of bigfin squid sightings. And…

Are New Zealanders the most enviable people in the world? First, they virtually eliminated the spread of covid-19…

The full contents of the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the U.S. have been revealed, and they’re…

Last week—in what might somehow qualify as good news for 2020—bug scientists in Washington State reported…

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all…

Black biologist Charles Henry Turner was doing groundbreaking research into animal cognition at the turn of the 20th…

Octopuses, with their eight suction-cup-covered arms, can taste objects simply by touching them. A team of…

A re-analysis of two fossils found in the 1980s has led to the discovery of an absolutely enormous Antarctic seabird.

An isolated coral reef measuring 1,640 feet tall has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Known as a detached…

Finally, some good news this year.

Someone—maybe an adolescent, maybe someone older—rushed across the edge of Lake Otero, slipping as they walked but…

Entomologists in Washington have confirmed the existence of a nest of Asian giant hornets, more fondly known as…

The diabolical ironclad beetle, in addition to having one of the coolest names in the animal kingdom, boasts one of…

Scientists have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat species known as Homotherium latidens, also…

A newly discovered species of tardigrade that glows blue when exposed to ultraviolet light uses the powers of…

A conservation group has tracked a migration for the ages, in which a male bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to New…

Humans aren’t the only creatures at risk from dying of covid-19, it seems. In recent weeks, the state of Utah has…