A Komodo dragon walking across a dry Indonesian landscape repeatedly does something that looks almost snake-like. Its long yellow tongue shoots from its mouth, splits into two narrow tips, then …
A bull moose walks through a northern forest carrying something extraordinary above its head: a huge structure made of bone that its body built in only a matter of months. …
A vulture drops from a wide circle in the sky and lands beside the remains of a dead animal. To us, the meal may look like something to avoid. As …
The reason why birds fly in a V formation is much stranger than simply staying together. Every bird creates an invisible trail of swirling air behind its wings. A bird …
An electric eel does not carry a miniature battery inside its body. Instead, electric eel voltage is produced by thousands of specialized biological cells working together with extraordinary precision. Each …
At first glance, a narwhal seems to be carrying a horn straight out of mythology. But that long spiral structure is neither a horn nor an antler. It is an …
A sloth may look like a solitary animal hanging quietly in the rainforest canopy, but its coat tells a very different story. Scientists studying the sloth fur ecosystem algae community …
Identifying spider webs by their overall shape is one of the easiest ways to learn more about the spiders living around your home. Web architecture can often point you toward …
An elephant standing quietly on an African savanna may be participating in a conversation that people nearby cannot even hear. Through elephant infrasound communication, these highly social animals produce deep, …
Imagine reaching adulthood and then, instead of continuing toward old age, reorganizing your body and returning to an earlier stage of life. A tiny marine animal called Turritopsis dohrnii can …