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Science
By Matt Soniak Sea hares don't look like they can put up much of a fight, but these bunny-eared slug cousins can really knock you senseless. When di...
By Sid Perkins The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to...
By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 03/15/2013 05:22 PM EDT on LiveScience Biologists briefly brought the extinct Pyrenean ibex back to life i...
By Traci Watson The giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) isn't just the world's largest amphibian. A new study shows the animal, which can reach 50...
By Carrie Arnold If you want to survive as an ant, you'd better get ready to make some noise. A new study shows that even ant pupae—a stage betw...
WASHINGTON — New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaur to the crafty...
by Brian Switek California sea lions are champion deep-divers, withstanding descents more than 300 meters deep. Now, a female California sea lion ...
By Amy West Many deep-sea squid dispel an ink cloud to flee a predator, but one species goes a step farther: It ensures a getaway by counterattackin...
By Gisela Telis The way to a woman's heart is through her stomach--at least for the swordtail characin. When a male of this tropical freshwater sp...
By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 07/10/2012 01:49 PM EDT on LiveScience The late Jamaican musician Bob Marley has joine...
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 06/21/2012 08:07 AM EDT on LiveScience Cheetahs and greyhounds have very similar running...
Brown tree snakes in Guam have wildlife officials there seeing red. That's why the officials are air-dropping poisoned mice as a lethal treat for the ...
By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/27/2012 05:21 PM EDT on LiveScience Rats and their close relatives, including mice, make ...
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/10/2012 07:18 PM EDT on LiveScience The insects often called thunderbugs include sold...
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/31/2012 09:09 AM EDT on LiveScience When they get sick, bees raid their own "medicine...
Giant squid have the largest eyes on Earth, about the size of a basketball—but why do they need such big peepers? So they can see a sperm whale in t...
Like a football player who just scored a touchdown, male white-flippered penguins (Eudyptula minor albosignata) perform triumph displays after defeati...
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/08/2012 02:09 PM EST on LiveScience Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are ...
By: Andrea Mustain Published: 03/08/2012 10:31 AM EST on OurAmazingPlanet Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron has unveiled plans to visit the d...
The past few tens of millennia were hard times for the "megafauna" of the world. Hundreds of big-bodied species—from the mammoths of North America t...
In the future, going to the zoo will be pretty wild. From cloned versions of extinct animals and big habitats where human visitors and not the animals...
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/27/2012 02:08 PM EST on LiveScience New Zealand was once home to the tallest pengu...
The first horses in North America would not have been able to hold their own in the Triple Crown. At just about 5.6 kilograms the Sifrhippus sandra...
By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 02/16/2012 11:38 PM EST on InnovationNewsDaily It's 2060, and you're planning to visit your grandkids...
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 02/06/2012 03:13 PM EST on LiveScience The sperm of the male diving beetle is serious...
