Latest Animals Stories
Speedo’s Super-Fast, Shark-Skin-Inspired Fastskin Swimsuit Is Actually Nothing Like a Shark’s Skin
Scientists Read Monkeys’ Minds, See What They’re Planning to Do Before They Do it
Video: Jellyfish Made From Silicone and Rat’s Heart Cells Swims and Beats Like a Heart
Using DNA to Track the Spread of Bedbugs
At Last, a Breed of Fruit Flies That Can Count Up to Four
Rough Sketch: “A Snail Could Be Used as a Battery”
By
Evgeny Katz as told to Flora Lichtman
/
Stressed-Out Grasshoppers Can Damage the Entire Ecosystem
Nano-Firefly Tech Could Make Lights That Need No Electricity
Industrial Food Machine of the Day: Robots Milk Cows
Industrial Food Machine of the Day: Automated Lamb Boner
Gallery: Ambitious Insect Catalog Snaps 3-D Images of Every Ant Species
Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor
How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter Than You
By
John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell
/
Video: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat Into a Flying Quadcopter
2011’s Top 10 New Species: Spongebob Squarepants ‘Shroom, Sneezing Monkey and a Worm From Hell
A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface
Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
Oxford Launches New Hunt for Yeti DNA Samples
Talking to Dolphins: New “Dolphin Speaker” Produces Full Range of Dolphinese Sounds
“Map of Life” Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small
FYI: My Dog Is A Very Good Listener, But How Much Can He Understand?
By
Vanessa Dopker
/
Curious Things That Fall From The Sky
New Primordial Protozoan Species Is Not in Any Known Kingdom of Life
Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth’s Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable Internal GPS
Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill
A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs
‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You
The Denver Zoo’s Poo-Powered Rickshaw Turns Animal Waste into Energy
Electric Animals That Aren’t Eels
Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot
A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner
Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies
Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Overlaying Navigation Data Onto Their Vision
Video: To Kill Predators, Japanese Honeybees Surround Them in a ‘Hot Defensive Bee Ball’
Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake
Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast
Japanese Researcher Crafts Violin Strings From the Silk of Three Hundred Spiders
Russian Scientists Grow Pleistocene-Era Plants From Seeds Buried By Squirrels 30,000 Years Ago
World’s Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar
Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth
Video: Creepiest Mirror Ever Displays Ghostly Animal Heads Mimicking Your Facial Expression
Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World
FYI: Do Animals Dream?
Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Study Shows Females Can Delay the Aging of Sperm Cells for Decades
The World’s Only Iridescent Mammal Is Blind and Lives Underground
Rainforest Expedition Turns Up 46 New Creatures, Including This Cowboy Frog
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears
This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World’s Smallest Vertebrate
Cyborg Insects Could be Powered by the Bugs’ Own Digestion
Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
Male Wolf Spiders Swipe Other Males’ Dance Moves
Video: Groombot Brushes Cat, Ushering in a New Era of Remote Robo-Petting
Video: Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats
FaceTime for Apes: Orangutans Use iPads to Video Chat With Friends In Other Zoos
PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
Video: A Water-Propelled ‘Dolphin Jetpack’
Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles
Video: A Yeti Crab That Grows Its Bacterial Meals on Its Own Body
Look at This Giant Bug!