Cats in Australia Kill Over 2 Billion Wild Animals Each Year By Mindy Weisberger Humans love cats, but the furry felines are stone-cold killers
We Are Very Close to Completely Eliminating Male Embryos (in Mice) By Grant Currin The catch is that it requires genetically altering the parents, too.
Python Swallows Crocodile Whole. Photographer Captures Every Last, Grisly 'Bite.' By Stephanie Pappas Teeth and scales didn't stop an Australian olive python from getting a meal.
Thousands of Sharks and Rays May Be Getting Strangled by Plastic Waste By Isobel Whitcomb No one is talking about this killer of sharks and rays.
Miners Looking for Gemstones Find Ancient Sea Monster Instead By Laura Geggel Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.
Yellow Jacket 'Super Nests' the Size of Cars Are Popping Up in Alabama By Laura Geggel Yellow jackets in Alabama may be in the midst of a colossal craze; they're making humongous "super nests" that can house 15,000 worker wasps, according to an entomologist there.
Scientists 'Thunderstruck' As Arctic Fox Makes Stunning 2,100-Mile Journey in Just 76 Days By Jeanna Bryner Scientists who tracked the young female were astonished by how fast the little fox traveled from Norway to Canada.
Japan Resumes Commercial Whaling After Decades of Slaughtering Whales 'for Science' By Brandon Specktor After 30 years of hunting whales in the name of "science," Japanese whalers can now kill whales in the name of profit again.
Alien Life Might 'Think' More Like an Octopus Than a Human By Mindy Weisberger When an octopus uses its arms, it's a no-brainer.
The Biggest Dinosaur to Ever Walk the Earth Just Wants to Text You By Michael Dhar Máximo the titanosaur wishes you'd drop him a line.
Cockroach 'Superbugs' Becoming Near-Impossible to Kill By Mindy Weisberger Roach-killing arsenals may soon become obsolete.
This Fungal Hallucinogen Makes Cicadas Orgy Till Their Butts Literally Fall Off By Isobel Whitcomb Their bodies may disintegrate, but these bugs don’t care.
Extinct 11-Foot 'Super-Ostrich' Was As Massive As a Polar Bear By Mindy Weisberger The brawny bird lived alongside humans, who may have hunted the giant.
Giant Squid Filmed Alive for Second Time in History. Here's the Video. By Laura Geggel For only the second time in history, researchers have recorded footage of a live — and very curious — giant squid in the pitch-dark depths of its salty, deep-sea home.
Attempted Whale Shark Mating Caught on Camera for the First Time in History By Brandon Specktor Nobody knows how whale sharks have sex, but these world-first aerial photos provide some big clues.
Why Do Some People Always Get Bitten by Mosquitoes, While Others Don't? By Grant Currin Some people can sit outside all summer long and not suffer from mosquito bites. Others turn into an itchy mess despite bathing in DEET and never leaving the purple glow of the bug zapper. What gives?
This 12-Foot, 463-Lb. Alligator Went Head to Head with a Semitruck By Rafi Letzter The creature survived the crash and wandered dazed in circles around a highway exit in Tallahassee before a trapper turned up.
Why These Strange, Reclusive Arachnids Fled Underground in Evolutionary Waves By Rafi Letzter When Australia got too hot and dry, which killed off forests, these woodland creatures decided to live underground.
First-Ever Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid Found in the Arctic By Stephanie Pappas Belugas and narwhals can apparently breed. Scientists have confirmed the only known specimen of beluga-narwhal hybrid.
