Which animal has the best hearing?
Ranking who has the best ears in the animal kingdom is a tough task, but some animals push the limits of hearing far beyond what humans can imagine. As night…
Thousands of bumblebee catfish captured climbing waterfall in never-before-seen footage
Never-before-seen footage has captured thousands of catfish climbing a waterfall in southern Brazil — the first detailed observation of the species migrating. Bumblebee catfish (Rhyacoglanis paranesis) get their name from…
Scientist Sifting Through Leaf Pile Finds A Creature With Expert Camouflage
“This thing is absolutely incredible.” While trekking through the thick Amazon rainforest in Peru, entomologist Phil Torres came across something extraordinary that most hikers would have walked right past. Among…
Police Escort Swan Family to Safety After Chelmsford Road Drama
Motorists on Essex Regiment Way got an unusual surprise last week — not from reckless drivers or criminals, but from a wandering family of swans. Police were called after two…
Scientists Say: Kleptopredation
Kleptopredation (noun, “KLEP-toh-pre-DAY-shun”)Kleptopredation describes a hunting strategy where a predator targets prey that has recently eaten, effectively consuming both the prey and its last meal. The prefix “klept-” comes from…
Pallas’s cat: One of the world’s oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm
Pallas’s cat is a small wild cat native to Central Asia with short legs and dense fur, making it look bigger than it really is — but the yelps it…
Scientists Identify a New Manta Ray Species, Just the Third Known in the World
Scientists Discover New Manta Ray Species: Mobula yarae When scientists announce a new species, it’s often a tiny frog, an obscure insect, or a deep-sea creature most people will never…
Scientists just uncovered three ancient worlds frozen beneath Illinois for 300 million years
More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago — including what is now the Mazon Creek (“muh-ZAHN”) fossil site — was alive…
Tour Guide Witnesses Touching Moment Between A Tapir And His Unlikely Friend
“It’s as if they’re talking to each other …” A few days ago, a Costa Rican tour guide named Dionisio Paniagua stumbled upon an interaction between two unlikely wild friends…
Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it’s not what scientists thought
A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida, which turns the marine creatures into goo. Mystery…