Madagascar's bizarre aye-aye has 6 fingers on each hand, scientists discover By Adam Hartstone‐Rose Scientists studying Madagascar's aye-aye just discovered a sixth tiny digit called a pseudothumb on each of its hands.
Upside-down jellyfish release venom-filled 'bombs' in their snot By Nicoletta Lanese The water surrounding upside-down jellyfish often stings to the touch, and now scientists know why.
This may be the biggest turtle that ever lived By Laura Geggel Why did these male turtles have horned shells? Likely to protect their heads during fierce combat, a study finds.
Epic battle between 2 subway mice takes people's choice prize at wildlife photography competition By Brandon Specktor The epic photo 'station squabble,' which shows two mice grappling over a scrap of food, has won the people's choice award for London's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
The last woolly mammoths on Earth had disastrous DNA By Laura Geggel The DNA in the woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island had a number of unfavorable variants.
Single lightning strike kills 4 endangered mountain gorillas By Nicoletta Lanese Lightning strikes kill wild animals relatively often, but the deaths of four rare gorillas represent a huge loss for the species.
'Reaper of death,' newfound cousin of T. rex, discovered in Canada By Laura Geggel This fearsome carnivore lived 12 million years before its cousin Tyrannosaurus rex.
Live Science podcast "Life's Little Mysteries" 4: Mysterious dogs By Live Science Staff In today's episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding one of our closest animal companions: dogs.
5 reasons hyenas like Harley Quinn's 'Bruce' are amazing By Mindy Weisberger Harley Quinn has a hyena friend in the movie "Birds of Prey," but even without supervillain sidekicks, hyenas are super-awesome.
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.
Why are these sharks doing the 'pipi' dance? By Mindy Weisberger A group of sharks writhing in shallow water may have looked like they were beached, but they weren't injured or in distress.
Fearsome Triassic 'ocean lizard' was a tweezer-nosed weirdo By Mindy Weisberger A newfound species of thalattosaur, a Triassic marine reptile, had a dramatically pointy skull unlike any seen in reptiles alive today.
Jackass penguins have a jackass language not so different from English By Brandon Specktor The braying songs of African 'jackass' penguins follow two extremely common rules of human language, a new study confirms.
Live Science podcast "Life's Little Mysteries" 3: Mysterious cats By Live Science Staff In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at one of the most puzzling animals on our planet, and one that you may share your home with: cats.
Seal caught clapping underwater … and scientists flip out By Nicoletta Lanese Unique footage of a gray seal clapping underwater reveals a new way the animals communicate underwater … and is super cute.
Dinosaur 'Firewalkers' left behind giant footprints in a 'land of fire' By Yasemin Saplakoglu Scientists recently discovered 183 million-year-old dinosaur footprints on a South African farm.
Newly discovered neon-green spider named after the 'Lady Gaga of mathematics' By Laura Geggel Given their coloring, the members of this spider's family are known as green cucumber spiders.
Acid in the Pacific Ocean is literally eating away crabs' shells By Brandon Specktor Researchers found that baby Dungeness crabs living in the most acidic coastal waters are smaller, weaker and at risk of losing their shells.
What's the smallest dinosaur? By Mindy Weisberger Some extinct dinosaurs were smaller than a modern chicken.
