Biology
Halloween in the Deep: The Creepy Hermit Crab [Video]
If you had an anemone stuck to your butt with a third pair of appendages, you would look creepy, too
The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
Biology
How the Parachute Flower Commits Fraud [Video]
A flower that smells like fake dying bee scams thieving flies into pollinating it for free
Evolution
Fish out of Water Are Actually Pretty Common [Video]
Terrestrial behavior has evolved in at least 33 families of living fish
Biology
Cliff-Dwelling Bees Carve Their Nests Out of Solid Rock
Sandstone-mining bees even tunnel into abandoned pueblos
Biology
Vast Pile of Plant Skeletons Hides in the Great Barrier Reef
New scans of the structures—termed bioherms—reveal odd nets, rings, and ripples of unknown origin
Biology
Why Lobster Larvae Harpoon-Proof Their Poo
How do you eat a live jellyfish? Verrrrry carefully
Biology
Bacterial Predators Surprise Scientists with Hidden Diversity
A vast group of mollusk-like microbes toting shells and trapping bacteria has many more members than suspected
Biology
Trapped in a Black Pit, Ants Refuse to Give Up
Where civilization-destroying weapons once lay, humble wood ants meet a science-fiction-like end
Biology
In the Year Following Fire, a Mushroom Bonanza
Morels, odd yet delicious, are often hard to find—but not in western forests that just burned
Biology
2 Lichen Mysteries Solved Reveal a Greater Hidden Truth
A pair of look-alike lichens may have outed a creature that escaped detection by biologists for centuries
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