Animals

  1. Animals

    Surprise! Some jellyfish appear to need their zzz’s

    Some upside-down jellyfish are the first known creatures lacking a brain to enter a sleeplike state.

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  2. Animals

    Scientists Say: Luminescence

    Light and heat don’t always have to go together! Luminescence is what occurs when a substance emits light without making heat.

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  3. Plants

    Earthworm invaders may be stressing out some maples

    Worms are great for soil when ecosystems have evolved with them. But in earthworm-free places, like parts of the U.S. Upper Midwest, they can cause problems for plants and animals.

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  4. Animals

    Pumpkin toadlets can’t hear themselves talk

    Tiny orange frogs make soft chirping sounds in the forests of Brazil. Their ears, however, cannot hear them, a new study finds.

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  5. Animals

    Scientists Say: Vampire

    Human vampires are found only in fiction. But vampire bats and moths are the real thing. These animals love the taste of blood, and some can’t live without it.

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  6. Animals

    Sucking blood isn’t an easy life, even for vampires

    Real vampires include bats, insects and even birds. And they’ve had to develop novel ways of dealing with a diet of blood.

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  7. Chemistry

    Why are cicadas such clumsy fliers?

    Chemical clues in the cicada’s wing may help explain why the bulky insect is a lousy flier.

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  8. Animals

    To become Australians, these spiders crossed an ocean

    The ancestors of a species of trapdoor spider must have survived a journey from Africa, a new genetic analysis finds.

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  9. Animals

    Scientists Say: Dung

    This word is used to refer to animal poop. You know, manure. Crap. Feces.

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  10. Life

    Cool Jobs: Puzzling over proteins to study life and death

    Scientists are using proteins to understand dinosaur family trees, to fight malnutrition with a peanut-butter mix in Africa and to make “Google maps” of human cells.

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  11. Environment

    Light pollution can foil plant-insect hookups

    An experiment in remote European meadows shows that light pollution at night can affect the pollination of flowers — even into sunlight hours.

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  12. Animals

    Poop-eating gulls can be pain in the butt for seal pups

    The birds can harm baby fur seals as they try to dine on fresh parasites in the pups’ feces.

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