After being eaten by a frog, some water beetles can scurry through the digestive tract and emerge on the other side, alive and well.
The sticky silk threads of spider webs may be hiding a toxic secret: potent neurotoxins that paralyze a spider’s prey.
Biologists have just begun to learn whether their bold plan worked to save the golden riffleshell, a freshwater mussel teetering on the brink of extinction.
With only four known species, Langsdorffia are thieves stripped down to their essentials.
Deep-sea anglerfish that fuse to mate lack genes involved in the body’s response against pathogens or foreign tissue.
At 6,739 meters above sea level, the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse survives low oxygen and freezing conditions atop a dormant volcano.
The coronavirus lineage that gave rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in bats for around 40 to 70 years, a study suggests.
Scientists discover that microbes that had lain dormant in the seafloor for millions of years can revive and multiply.
Some wasps scavenge carrion or pluck parasites off birds, but reports of attacks on live birds are rare.