Nature
The 12 weirdest animal penises on Earth [Updated]
Posted on February 13, 2013, at 12:30 PMFrom dolphins' hand-like retractables to tiny bugs' dagger-esque spikes, here are a few of the animal kingdom's stranger male sex organs
Man's common ancestor with other mammals: A rat?
Posted on February 8, 2013, at 12:53 PMSay hi to your, great, great, great, great... grand-something
How dung beetles use stars to find their way home
Posted on January 24, 2013, at 4:19 PMSwedish researchers find that the bugs can use the heavens to correctly orient themselves
Yes, you can have a pet fox
Posted on January 24, 2013, at 12:20 PMThanks to the hard work of a Soviet geneticist and a few fox enthusiasts, says Dan Nosowitz at Popular Science, domesticated foxes exist
The race to save a pod of killer whales trapped in arctic ice [Updated]
Posted on January 10, 2013, at 10:10 AMIf the whales' small hole freezes over, they will drown
WATCH: The first-ever footage of the legendary giant squid in its natural habitat
Posted on January 7, 2013, at 4:30 PMJapanese researchers pursue the mythical creature 2,000 feet under the sea
The spider that builds its own lifelike decoys
Posted on December 19, 2012, at 12:32 PMDon't be fooled by this master trickster
How porcupines are helping doctors design better needles
Posted on December 11, 2012, at 12:47 PMThe rodent's barbed quills give researchers some unlikely inspiration
9 animal species named after famous people [Updated]
Posted on December 11, 2012, at 10:40 AMLady Gaga, Stephen Colbert, and President Obama are just a few of the names lucky enough to receive the biology world's highest compliment
WATCH: How catfish taught themselves to snag pigeons for lunch
Posted on December 6, 2012, at 5:00 PMAlong the Tarn River in France, freshwater fish have adopted a hunting technique more typically used by killer whales
How to calculate a lobster's age
Posted on November 30, 2012, at 12:28 PMScientists learn that you can count the crustacean's rings to determine how old it is, just like you would a tree
Do chimps go through midlife crises too?
Posted on November 20, 2012, at 1:08 PMAccording to a new study, our closest biological relatives experience an emotional lull in middle age, much like we humans do
Brazil's bizarre plan to clone endangered wolves, jaguars, and monkeys
Posted on November 15, 2012, at 4:34 PMNext month Brazilian biologists will attempt to genetically reproduce eight at-risk species in a lab
WATCH: Video of the rare millipede with a record-breaking 750 legs
Posted on November 15, 2012, at 3:20 PMScientists rediscover an astoundingly leggy bug they once believed to be extinct
Sauroniops: The Tyrannosaurus-sized dinosaur named after the Lord of the Rings villain
Posted on November 8, 2012, at 3:13 PMThe full name of this terrifying predator translates literally to "Eye of Sauron" in Greek
The wacky plan to build a Bigfoot-hunting blimp
Posted on November 6, 2012, at 2:53 PMAn Idaho State University professor is hoping his plan for a crowd-sourced, remote-control airship will attract the pocketbooks of Sasquatch believers
- How typeface influences the way we read and think
- The culture war is over, and conservatives lost
- The FBI has purposefully — and, it says, justifiably — shot 150 Americans since 1993
- Has Snowden crossed a red line?
- The last word: He said he was leaving. She ignored him.
- WATCH: Australia's army chief demonstrates how you address sex abuse
- 3D-printed batteries the size of a grain of sand
- The world is way, way bigger than you
- 10 things you need to know today: June 19, 2013
- Washington has an Edward Snowden problem
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