
Made by Rain, Mushrooms Also Make It
Millions of tons of mushroom spores may seed rain over forests
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Millions of tons of mushroom spores may seed rain over forests
A sinister string of beads made by the organisms that cause sleeping sickness helps the parasite both elude our defenses and make us sick
A new Sesame Street star in the making?
Although scientists have intensively studied household pests, almost nothing has been done to survey everyone else—and everyone else turns out to be the silent majority
Enigmatic tongue worm found fossilized together with a 425-million-year-old host for the first time
You will not look this good in 99 million years
Dozens of new sparkling dragonflies and sculpted beetles were easy to find. We just had to look
Opossum shrimp leeches combine three concepts that do not seem to belong together into one awesome parasite
Modern mud dragons are kind of cute. At least one of their ancestors, however, was not
Scientists claim proteinaceous blood vessels from a hadrosaur that roamed proto-Montana 80 million years ago somehow survived