Some fish have bacteria on the brain. Wild and lab-grown members of the salmon family including European rainbow trout, Chinook salmon and Gila trout harbor active microbial communities inside their…
Category: Animals
Mega El Niños kicked off the world’s worst mass extinction
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Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat waves
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Scientists piece together clues in a shark ‘murder mystery’
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How an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip
Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle the tip of a pencil. Despite its size, the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta)…
In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow
You’ve heard of jazz hands? Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines onto the Mexican free-tailed bat’s extraordinarily hairy toes, they light up like a Christmas tree.…
Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species
Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges and corals that grow along the flanks of a 3,100-meter-tall undersea mountain. A…
National Geographic’s ‘OceanXplorers’ dives into the ocean’s mysteries
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This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct giant ground sloths
Deep in the unyielding darkness of a Brazilian cave, a pale, blind, spiny beast carefully feels its way across rust-colored rocks. Meet Paleotoca diminas, a spider new to science. The…
This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey
Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving…
