Creature
All that slithers, swims, flits, flies, grows and dies
Animals, plants, microbes, fungi and all life on Earth, from long-buried dinosaurs to newly emerging infections, often serve to instruct and amaze. We are interested in everything from the simplest physical structures to the most complex emergent behavior of life's many forms — from the extinct to the evolved and from the web of ecology to the promise of animal-inspired technology.
Photographers snapped images of the red-eyed insects emerging after 17 years underground.
Unexpectedly warm water may explain how North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles get from Japan to Baja California.
Brood X is emerging across 15 states. Here's how to decode all that buzzing from the trees.
Many unborn creatures make and receive sounds and vibrations -- getting valuable information on the outside world.
Researchers confirm that sharks use a magnetic field to change their route.
Honeybees relay the location of the queen through pheromones.
The new species unearthed in Patagonia belongs to a group called abelisaurids, which resembled tyrannosaurs with short, bumpy faces.
Reductions in hunting due to COVID-19 restrictions may have led to less stress and better feeding opportunities for already thriving northern birds.
A new paper suggests whales learned to escape the grasp of hunters in just a few years.
Research with octopus limb regeneration helps scientists create smart prosthetics.
Artificial "protocells" suggest the complex biochemical mechanisms used by living cells could have originated in simple bubbles.
A new model suggests that many more mammal species than was previously known could host the creation of novel coronaviruses.
