These worker ants drag their queens to far-off bachelor pads to mate By Ben Turner This is the first time that third-party matchmaking has been observed in non-humans.
Glow-in-the-dark baby squid and tardigrades to be blasted into space By Ben Turner Scientists hope to identify the genes that the animals use to adapt to extreme environments.
Huge egg from extinct dwarf emu found in sand dune By Laura Geggel The egg of a dwarf emu that's been extinct for 200 years was found in a sand dune on King Island, Australia.
Honeybee 'Trojan horse' virus relies on bees' habit of cannibalizing their young By Cameron Duke An increasingly virulent pathogen is turning hygienic cannibalism on its head.
Great white shark population off California's coast is growing By Stephanie Pappas The population of great white sharks in Northern California is around 300 and growing.
Madagascar may be a secret stronghold for 'living fossil' fish By Stephanie Pappas Madagascar may be the ancestral home of coelacanths, 'living fossil' fish once thought to have gone extinct.
Where's Wally? Iceberg-hopping walrus is now 2,600 miles from home By Ben Turner Wally was blasted by an air horn and hosed down by lifeboat crews in Wales, and has now reappeared off the coast of Cornwall.
Flowers use the smell of death to lure and imprison coffin flies By Yasemin Saplakoglu This is the first time that a flower has been found to mimic the scent of dead insects, according to a new study.
Dead baby orca reveals harmful chemical levels in killer whales By Laura Geggel Eight dead whales found in Norway had high levels of chemicals, including banned PCBs, in their bodies.
Forest ranger stumbles onto garden of ancient beasts in California foothills By Tia Ghose A park ranger wandering through a petrified forest in California has unearthed a trove of prehistoric fossils, including a stunningly preserved mastodon skull and the remains of a monster salmon.
Do goldfish really have a 3-second memory? By Harry Baker Goldfishes actually have memories that can last for weeks, months and even years.
Some Brood X cicadas will be sex-crazed zombies with disintegrating butts By Mindy Weisberger A number of now-emerging Brood X cicadas will fall victim to a zombifying fungus called Massospora cicadina.
Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees By Stephanie Pappas Genetic research reveals that wild African monkeys of a locally famous colony are the descendants of escapees from a private zoo that shut down in 1956.
Bizarre, polka-dotted blob washes ashore in North Carolina By Laura Geggel A weird polka-dotted blob that washed ashore in North Carolina has finally been identified.
Finding those delightful Brood X cicadas: Here's how By Mindy Weisberger Brood X cicadas, also known as the Great Eastern Brood, are ready for their closeup.
Tardigrades can survive being shot out of a high-speed gun By Yasemin Saplakoglu Tardigrades, those adorable, chubby water bears, are notoriously hardy — and they can even survive being shot out of a gun, up to a point.
Horses: Domestic, feral and wild By Patrick Pester There are hundreds of different breeds of horse, from the slender Thoroughbred racehorses, to the massive shire workhorses, to the itty-bitty miniature horses.
Strange single-celled life-form has a truly bizarre genome By Nicoletta Lanese The genome of the plankton Symbiodinium microadriaticum is arranged in a very peculiar way.
Megalodon: Facts about the long-gone, giant shark By Alina Bradford Megalodon was the largest shark and one of the largest fish on record. It went extinct about 2.6 million years ago.
Deep-sea fish with lightbulb on its head mysteriously washes ashore in California By Rachael Rettner The bizarre creature is normally found at ocean depths of around 3,000 feet.
