It's Alive

  1. Animals

    When octopuses dance beak to beak

    The larger Pacific striped octopus does sex, motherhood and shrimp pranks like nobody else.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Animals

    Boa suffocation is merely myth

    Boa constrictors don’t suffocate prey; they block blood flow, says a new study that shatters a common myth about the snakes.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    First known venomous frogs stab with toxin-dripping lip spikes

    Two Brazilian frogs jab foes with venoms more deadly than pit vipers'.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Animals

    Toddler seahorses are bumbling and adorable

    Rice-grain-sized youngsters can’t yet get a grasp with their tails.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Life

    A downy killer wages chemical warfare

    The common fungus Beauveria bassiana makes white downy corpses of its victims.