Animals

  1. Animals

    How wombats make their unique cube-shaped poop

    The elasticity of the wombat’s intestines helps the creature to shape its distinctive scat.

    By Laurel Hamers
  2. Ecosystems

    Scientists Say: Symbiosis

    Two species can live together and support each other in a relationship called symbiosis.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  3. Animals

    How do elephants eat cereal? With a pinch

    Elephant trunks can grab everything from whole trees to cereal bits. To pick up fine grains, they press, then pinch.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  4. Animals

    Bees stopped buzzing during the Great American Eclipse

    A rare study of bees during a total solar eclipse finds that the insects buzzed around as usual — until the darkness of totality arrived.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Here’s how cockroaches fight off zombie-makers

    Stand tall. Kick, kick and kick some more. Scientists observed these successful tactics among some study subjects that avoided becoming true zombies.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Genetics

    Gene editing wiped out a population of mosquitoes in lab tests

    For the first time, a gene drive caused a population crash of mosquitoes. Such gene editing could drive the malaria-carrying insects to extinction.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Animals

    How Hannibal the cannibal led to a discovery about cobra diet

    How a snake named Hannibal led to a discovery about cobra cannibalism

    By Sarah Zielinski
  8. Animals

    Giraffes inherit their spots from mom

    Africa’s tallest creatures inherit their characteristic patterns of spots from their mothers, a new study finds.

    By Jennifer Leman
  9. Health & Medicine

    Chigger ‘bites’ may trigger an allergy to red meat

    Some people develop a food allergy to red meat, and researchers suspect chiggers bites are to blame.

    By Alison Pearce Stevens
  10. Animals

    These songbirds can fling and shake mice to death

    Loggerhead shrikes skewer small animals on barbed wire and give mice a serious shake-up.

    By Susan Milius
  11. Animals

    This penguin prey knows how to fight back

    Scientists attached cameras to gentoo penguins off the Falkland Islands. The video revealed that their tiny prey can sometimes win in a fight.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  12. Animals

    Eating queen’s poop makes naked mole rats babysit her kids

    Hormones in the poop of a naked mole rat queen turns other females into babysitters for her young.

    By Laurel Hamers
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