Praying mantises may not actually pray, but they do prey heavily on insects along with other small land animals.…
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Officials in Canada recently announced that gold miners in Yukon territory unearthed a mummified wolf pup and caribou calf, both…
Spiders can detect the Earth’s electric field and use it to lift off and fly through the air, according to…
A group of scientists unveiled the first results last week of an ambitious effort to map the genes of tens of thousands of animal species, a project they said could help save animals from extinction down the line. An international consortium involving over 50 institutions has announced an ambitious project to assemble high-quality genome sequences
In brains versus brawn, muscles may be more important than brains for ants when it comes to defending themselves,…
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the…
The next time you encounter a goat, be sure to smile at it. We all know dogs are good at…
A single cave in the mountains of Siberia has produced a string of remarkable archaeological discoveries. In 2008, scientists there…
An international team of scientists has identified the location of more than 100,000 wheat genes. The researchers say the map…
It seems to have lived in the desert and died more than 200 million years ago. It’s a new giant…
Small dogs urinate higher on lamp posts than larger dogs, probably to appear bigger and scarier than larger dogs.…
The bottleneck dolphin usually lives in coastal areas with shallow water. But in Bermuda, there is a group of bottleneck…
Researchers know that there have been two short-statured human populations on the Indonesian island of Flores and has thus evolved…
The oldest remains of biologically produced color have been found, that is, color that was once produced by living organisms.…
Researchers have long dreamed of replicating the photosynthesis of plants through artificial photosynthesis. A new study might just make this…