
New Shipworm Eats Rock, a First for Animals
Like lichens, these animals mine stone. What they do with it is another question
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
Like lichens, these animals mine stone. What they do with it is another question
Unassuming tree has unusual sex life
Be glad human STDs do not include this one
Are they the first animal embryos? 20 years post-discovery, these and other fossils from the 600-million-year-old Doushantuo Formation remain frustratingly enigmatic
Ocean microbes long thought to depend exclusively on eating turn out to have a solid, if sinister, Plan B
Fire chaser beetles' ability to sense heat borders on the spooky
First ever high-speed video of interaction contains big surprises
No other placental mammals have ever shown this ability—perhaps because we haven't looked
Whatever made these structures lived 1.4 billion years before the first animals
What separates a lethal prion from a dementia-associated amyloid plaque? Maybe not much