Researchers initially mistook a previously undescribed egg-eating snake species for a known species. What revealed its true ...

Forget the quarterback. The most entertaining player on the field apparently came out of the woods. In the video above, a ...

Quick Take Polyergus Breviceps Staging the Raids Queen’s Gambit Human Concepts, Natural Necessity This species of ant can’t forage for its own food, so it stages raids on other nests to steal their ...

The nine-banded armadillo does not appear to be built for water, and science supports this. Its specific gravity is approximately 1.06, which essentially means it is denser than water and sinks with ...

Summer the dog spotted a crab in the yard and moved in for a closer look, which would have been fine if the crab had not already found something to hold in its claw.

Bornean frogs engage in a behavior that seems too bizarre to be practical, at least at first. These tiny frogs lift one hind leg into the air, extend it, rotate the foot as if to wave, then lower it ...

We explain how the Indian Queenless ant species has a single reproductive female who mutilates her sisters to remove the competition!

The octopus rarely stays the same shape or color for long. In the wild, its ability to disappear against a shimmering coral ...

A whole-lake experiment reveals that a common wastewater pollutant can dramatically alter the behavior of wild male fathead ...

Snails may be small, but a species in Australia may hold weather secrets within the rings of its shell, dating back to ...

Once again, fossils preserved in museum collections are revealing age-old secrets. Over sixty years ago, a British expedition into Tanzania netted a large assortment of synapsid fossils. These ...

Arboreal ants have evolved a genius method for surviving when they fall from a tree. They can glide back to the tree trunk!