41 million-year-old insect sex romp preserved in amber By Mindy Weisberger Amber from Australia holds some of the continent's oldest known specimens of preserved plants and animals, and includes a pair of flies trapped while mating.
'Starry Night' replica found on peacock spider's butt By Brandon Specktor Seven new species of peacock spider have been discovered in Australia, one of which was named for Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night
'Warrior' dinosaur with nasty gouge mark on claw uncovered in New Mexico By Laura Geggel It's possible this feathered hypercarnivore hunted like a cheetah.
Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' may be helping river ecosystems in Colombia By Mindy Weisberger Hippos that once resided in Pablo Escobar's private zoo are now thriving and multiplying in the wild, performing an ecological role that has been vacant for millennia.
Frogs' skulls are more bizarre (and beautiful) than you ever imagined By Mindy Weisberger Remarkable images capture a wide range of spikes, spines, bumps and pits in the skulls of frogs.
Coronavirus could be catastrophic for great apes, experts warn By Yasemin Saplakoglu Even mild human pathogens can be dangerous for great apes.
This primeval worm may be the ancestor of all animals By Brandon Specktor This ancient fossil worm may be the progenitor of all animals, a new study suggests.
Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows By Laura Geggel This 380-million-year-old fish had five "fingers" in its pectoral fins, showing that fish developed fingers before making the move to land.
Starving monkey 'gangs' battle in Thailand as coronavirus keeps tourists away By Brandon Specktor Video from Lopburi, Thailand shows two gangs of monkeys brawling in the street over a scrap of food. Coronavirus may be to blame.
Earth had shorter days when dinosaurs lived, ancient shells show By Yasemin Saplakoglu When dinosaurs still left fresh footprints on the mud, our planet twirled around faster than it does today.
Two of the last white giraffes on Earth were slaughtered by poachers By Brandon Specktor A rare white giraffe and her 7-month-old calf were found slaughtered in a nature conservancy in Kenya this week. There may be just one more white giraffe left on Earth.
Trapped in amber, this could be the smallest dinosaur ever found By Laura Geggel This bird-like dinosaur was so small, it weighed about 2 grams, the weight of two $1 bills.
This adorable animal spends its entire adult life pregnant By Mindy Weisberger Swamp wallaby females can spend all of their adult lives in a permanent state of pregnancy, conceiving a new embryo while still carrying a near-term fetus.
'Exquisite' dinosaur-age cockroaches discovered preserved in amber By Rafi Letzter A pair of 99-million-year-old cave-dwelling cockroaches are rewriting the early history of when bugs first moved into caves.
Deep-sea sponges caught 'sneezing' in time-lapse photos By Nicoletta Lanese Deep-sea sponges may not have noses, but they still sneeze.
Live Science podcast "Life's Little Mysteries" 8: Mysterious dinosaurs By Live Science Staff This mysterious group of animals fascinates people of all ages.
Why do so many cats have white 'socks' on their paws? By Grant Currin Those white socks are there because of genetic mutations and domestication.
Polar bear photos: Stunning shots capture Earth's icons of climate change By Jeanna Bryner On International Polar Bear Day, let's celebrate the largest of the bear species with these magnificent polar bear photos.
Seabird-eating 'monster' crabs are chatty during sex By Mindy Weisberger Enormous and powerful coconut crabs are known for their extreme size. They also have an unexpectedly diverse "vocabulary."
'Shocked' scientists find brain parasites in baby lizards still in shells By Nicoletta Lanese Scientists found parasitic worms in the brains of lizard embryos. How did they get there?
