Latest articles by Matt Soniak
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Is Norman Bates a realistic psychopath?
feature A new study examines 400 movies to see whether Hollywood gets psychopathy right
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How ants use 'death signals' to scavenge for food
feature European biologists have finally found the cause of ants' uncanny ability to locate far-flung meals
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How 8 famous writers chose their pen names
feature Because Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski can be a bit of a mouthful
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These monkeys are the most monogamous primates on earth
feature Meet the owl monkey
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How rain helped the Mongols conquer Asia
feature Tree rings have many stories to tell
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The deadly sexism of hurricane naming
feature There was nothing "weak, warm, and passive" about a hurricane named Sandy
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Why don't different species have sex more often?
feature The Western Mojave's Capulets and Montagues offer some clues
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Elephants are really messy eaters — and that's great for other animals
feature Call it creative destruction
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Maybe lions aren't cheetah-murdering monsters after all
feature Kumbaya
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The girl who grew Lincoln's beard
feature The 16th president achieved follicular fame thanks to an 11-year-old girl
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The sexual battles of plants
feature Meet the milkweed, the plant world's craftiest Don Juan
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Too much sex? Why some animals fornicate to death
feature It ain't for the fun of it
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The secret strategy behind the black widow's bite
feature The deadly spider is very judicious with its venom
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This is why you don't have sex with other species
feature Some worms find interspecies mating to be a deadly affair
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Inside nature's most painfully bizarre sexual ritual
feature It involves sex-reversed genitalia and a barbed, inflatable member
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How did flightless birds travel around the world?
feature It's a question that has bedeviled ornithologists for years. And it might have just been solved.
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The secret to living upside down, according to sloths
feature Hanging upside down all day would wreck your inner organs — so how do sloths make do?
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How diet affects an animal's chance of becoming roadkill
feature Omnivores have the worst luck
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Why don't octopuses get stuck to themselves?
feature Their arms have mighty suckers, but octopuses somehow manage to avoid wrapping themselves up in knots
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The koala's secret to staying cool: Hugging
feature Tree-hugging, to be exact
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The useful versatility of the humble ant
feature Ants can be used by other animals for a variety of purposes, including as camouflage and home security systems
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The adorable mouse that's immune to scorpion stings
feature Here he comes to save the day!
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What a set of serrated teeth could tell us about ancient ecology
feature Dimetrodon's chompers are a window into the past
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Meet the sommelier of insect stings
feature A yellowjacket sting is "hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W.C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue."
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