May 15, 2018 Scientists sucked a memory out of a snail and stuck it in another snail A new study strongly suggests that at least some memories are stored in genetic code, and that genetic code can act like memory soup. Suck it out of one animal and stick the code in a second animal, and that second animal can remember things that only the first animal knew.
May 14, 2018 Meet Kim, the first spider to jump on demand A tiny but proficient jumper named Kim is the first spider ever trained by scientists to leap on demand.
May 1, 2018 Hand-sized tarantula found in British park bin A giant tarantula the size of a hand has been rescued after it was found in a garbage can in Giltbrook, Nottingham.
March 22, 2018 Here's why cockroaches can survive just about anything The genome of the American cockroach has been sequenced for the first time, revealing why these creepy-crawlies are such tenacious survivors.
March 20, 2018 6 things you might not know about bees Many of us, when we think about bees, probably think about their stings, how they pollinate flowers, and how bumblebees seem too fat to be able to fly. But there are a few unusual tidbits about our buzzing friends that you may not know about.
March 13, 2018 Massive, 6-inch hairy spider saved from mind-blowing Australian flood It really does sound like something from a horror movie: a giant spider larger than a man’s hand, which makes loud hissing sounds and has powerful long venomous fangs.
February 28, 2018 'World's deadliest spider' may actually help save its own victims He’s big. He drips venom. He’s angry. His name is Colossus.
February 15, 2018 These may be the only non-human war medics on earth A species of African ant lives a life so fierce that it's become expert at wartime triage.
February 8, 2018 Study finds beetle has hugely disgusting survival mechanism Planet Earth has been holding out on us.
February 7, 2018 100-million-year-old spider with a tail longer than its body discovered A brand new species of arachnid that looks like a spider with a tail has been discovered in Myanmar.
