A parasol mushroom releasing spores from under its cap. This image won the Plants and Fungi category.
"I've known many of them for their entire lives. And now I'm watching them kill each other," says one researcher.
Turns out there might be a very understandable reason why your cat leaves its bowl half-empty.
Googly eyes are apparently one of a gull's biggest fears.
The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found.
Unlike most bugs, snow flies thrive in the cold—thanks to a baffling mix of genetic kinks that scientists never expected to find.
The origins of whale midwifery might date back millions of years, the researchers say.
Photo: Agorastos Papatsanis / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 
