Hate spiders? The Malaysian jumping spider might just win you over. New research reveals that Paracyrba wanlessi preys almost exclusively on a despised human foe: the mosquito. Perhaps a little respect is in order for an arachnid that gobbles up ...
Foodies aren’t the only ones swarming cities in search of the best eats. Even bees are going urban to satisfy their taste for diverse, high-quality food—especially as wild habitat becomes more scarce, new research reveals. Gordon Frankie, an ...
Oops. Two wild animals that are part of two separate National Geographic-funded research studies in Africa crossed paths last week. Only one walked away. The deadly meeting went down on the savanna in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The perp: a ...
What has three eyes, two noses, and an antenna poking up like a little puppet from its head? That would be a unique specimen of the freshwater crab Amarinus lacustris, discovered in New Zealand and described in this week’s ...
Dog owners were right all along. Our pups really do get jealous when we direct our affection elsewhere—but mostly when their rival for attention appears to threaten their social life. Once thought to be too complex an emotion for ...
Here’s some explosive news from the world of pollinators: A rain forest plant baits birds with puffy treats, then blasts any takers with pollen—a unique discovery. A few other flowering plants have bellows-like systems to release pollen, but ...
The superfast tongue of the horned frog is also a superpowerful adhesive. A new study published June 12 in Scientific Reports is the first to explain just how this amphibian‘s feeding apparatus sticks to prey so successfully. Evolutionarily speaking, it ...
Love is a fickle thing—even in barn owls. These normally monogamous birds sometimes call it quits and move on to new partners—nearly a quarter of the time, in fact, says a new study published April 28 in the Journal ...
Washington, D.C.‘s visiting snowy owl has had a rough couple of months, but the bird is now getting a full makeover—including some shiny new feathers. The two-year-old bird was first spotted in the nation’s capital in ...
Washington, D.C.‘s visiting snowy owl has had a rough couple of months, but the bird is now getting a full makeover—including some shiny new feathers. The two-year-old bird was first spotted in the nation’s capital in ...
The short list of animals that console stressed-out friends just got longer … and heavier. Asian elephants, like great apes, dogs, certain corvids (the bird group that includes ravens), and us, have now been shown to recognize when a herd mate ...
The short list of animals that console stressed-out friends just got longer … and heavier. Asian elephants, like great apes, dogs, certain corvids (the bird group that includes ravens), and us, have now been shown to recognize when a herd mate ...
A toad from the Andes mountains that had long been thought extinct and was known only from a single museum specimen collected in 1970 has resurfaced in Ecuador. After the initial discovery of the Tandayapa Andean toad in Ecuador’s Pichincha ...
A toad from the Andes mountains that had long been thought extinct and was known only from a single museum specimen collected in 1970 has resurfaced in Ecuador. After the initial discovery of the Tandayapa Andean toad in Ecuador’s Pichincha ...
What’s longer than a minivan and can swallow a whole deer for dinner? The enormous Burmese python that turned up in the Everglades this week—the second largest found in the fragile Florida wetland environment within the last year. ...