Watch Rare Footage of Whales Blowing 'Bubble Nets' to Capture Prey in a Vortex of Doom By Mindy Weisberger Underwater and airborne cameras recently captured an astounding sight: feeding whales producing bubble nets to trap their prey.
What Is a Sea Cucumber? By Rachel Ross Nope, these cucumbers aren't plants. Sea cucumbers are colorful, squishy sea creatures that live on the ocean floor.
What's The Biggest Animal That a Snake Can Swallow? By Grant Currin A complex network of skull bones, ligaments and muscles allows a snake to swallow prey with bodies much larger than the sinuous predator's own head.
Move Over, Tardigrades — 'Mold Pigs' Are the New Micro-Beast in Town By Nicoletta Lanese A paleobiologist uncovered a never-before-seen microinvertebrate in Dominican amber.
Scientists Implant False Memories into Bird Brains By Stephanie Pappas False memories implanted in the brains of songbirds could explain how the birds learn to sing — and how people learn to talk.
Photos of the Pika, North America's Cutest Mammal By Linda & Dr. Dick Buscher The American pika may look more closely related to a hamster or a guinea pig instead of their rabbit/hare cousins.
Depressing Image Shows Dead Baby Sea Turtle Found with 104 Pieces of Plastic in Its Belly By Kimberly Hickok Sea turtles aren't made to eat plastic.
This Bizarre, Eel-Like Shark Prowled the Oceans 350 Million Years Ago By Yasemin Saplakoglu Paleontologists discovered the first nearly complete skeleton of an ancient shark belonging to the genus Phoebodus.
Betta Fish: The Dazzling Siamese Fighting Fish By Jeremy Rehm Reference Article: Facts about betta fish.
'Damage Suppressor' Protein Protects Adorable Tardigrades ... and Human Cells, Too By Mindy Weisberger Scientists deciphered a key ingredient in tardigrades' arsenal of superpowers, learning how a unique protein in microscopic water bears provides protection from harmful radiation.
Utah Runners' 'Freak Accident' with Charging Bison Explained By Yasemin Saplakoglu A runner in Utah was gored by a bison, and then his date suffered the same fate. Why do bison charge people?
Worms with Three Sexes Thrive in Arsenic-Laced Lake in California By Nicoletta Lanese Scientists found eight nematodes that can live in a lake deemed inhospitable for most animals.
Walrus Attacks and Sinks Russian Navy Boat By Nicoletta Lanese A walrus attacked and sank a Russian tugboat last week, according to news reports.
Photos: How to Identify a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake By Linda & Dr. Dick Buscher The western diamondback rattlesnake is the largest of the 32 known species of rattlesnakes found in North America. Here's how you can tell it's the western diamondback.
Axolotls: The Adorable, Giant Salamanders of Mexico By Jeremy Rehm Axolotls are cute, charismatic salamanders that have an almost otherworldly ability to regenerate their body parts. But pollution and urbanization critically threaten this species' survival.
Missing Link Between Simple Cells and Complex Life-Forms Possibly Found By Nicoletta Lanese Barring further research, the discovery may help determine how cells first formed nuclei.
Deep-Sea Explorers Find Rare Shapeshifting Jellyfish with a Prize Inside By Brandon Specktor Part ghost, part plastic bag, all amazing.
Lab-Made Embryos Could Save Northern White Rhinos After Last Male Dies By Stephanie Pappas Two embryos have been created from the eggs of the last living northern white rhinoceroses.
Nightmare Creature Had Egg-Shaped Eyes, Swiss Army Knife Head and a Butt Shield By Mindy Weisberger An ancient relative of spiders and scorpions had a tank-like body with bulging eyes, a spiky shield on its butt and a head like a multitool.
Meet 'Cold Dragon of the North Winds,' the Giant Pterosaur That Once Soared Across Canadian Skies By Mindy Weisberger Cryodrakon boreas, a newly described species of giant pterosaur, was recently identified from fossils found in Canada.
