1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (531+ words) A number of creatures on Earth possess a sting in their tails – but there's only one animal known to science with a spider for a tail....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (347+ words) We've made some drastic changes to ocean ecosystems in the past century....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (663+ words) In the liminal darkness of the water column deep under the sea, an entire ecosystem thrives....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (560+ words) Crocodiles are among today's most feared predators, but their ancient relatives make today's crocs seem as threatening as a cuddle-prone kitty with a cold. It took a while, though: Since crocodyliforms arose more than 200 million years ago, they've gone through…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (882+ words) The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years. As difficult as it is to picture now, however, much of that desert was once submerged beneath a sea that covered much of the northern perimeter of the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (418+ words) Celebrating a dog's birthday is one of the genuinely great things to share and enjoy on social media....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (316+ words) Whether waking up to a slobber-soaked ribbon draped across one's face or an unfortunately massacred mouse 'gifted' in one's slippers, anyone intimate with a cat can attest that their tiny tiger is evolutionarily built to hunt....