May 2, 2016 Eagle-eyed fans glued to live webcam to watch osprey eggs hatch A pair of osprey waiting for three eggs to hatch is now a main attraction after a local man set up a live osprey webcam to welcome the new arrivals.
May 2, 2016 Say cheese: Rare striped rabbit photographed A rare striped rabbit, seen only a handful of times, has peeked out of its tropical forest home, and a graduate student got the chance of a lifetime, holding and photographing the little guy on the first day of a three-month expedition to study the animal's habitat
May 2, 2016 'Purring' Wolf Spiders softly serenade mates Male wolf spiders use "purring" vibrations to serenade their sweethearts, but this wooing only works if the females can feel these vibrations, new research finds
May 2, 2016 Early snake had ankles and toes What a difference 128 million years can make. According to research published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, the original snake ancestor was a night hunter and came equipped with tiny hindlimbs complete with toes and ankles.
May 2, 2016 ‘Dementor’ wasp turns cockroaches into zombies It’s the stuff of nightmares – a newly-discovered wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies.
May 2, 2016 Cartwheeling spider, corpse-hoarding wasp among bizarre new species A morbidly maternal wasp, a crop-circle-creating pufferfish and an acrobatic arachnid are among the bizarre and awe-inspiring new species named in 2014, according to a new ranking
May 2, 2016 Baby spiders fall from the sky, cover the ground with 'angel hair' in Australia Those who suffer from arachnophobia beware. Last week, people in the city of Albury in New South Wales, Australia encountered an eerie sight — silky webs coated the land, teeming with millions of small baby spiders. The spiders parachuted down from the sky, a process known as “ballooning,” reports CNET.
May 2, 2016 Massive 7-foot-long eel caught in UK almost breaks record A silvery-gray conger eel had already gone limp by the time fishermen found it on their trawler, but its shocking length of 7 feet still caught them off guard, according to the British company that found the huge eel.
May 2, 2016 Chicken embryos with dinosaur snouts created in lab Chicks with dino-snouts? With a little molecular tinkering, for the first time scientists have created chicken embryos with broad, Velociraptor-like muzzles in the place of their beaks
May 2, 2016 Male snakes spend mega calories when they mate Every spring, red-sided garter snakes leave their hibernation burrows to engage in a frenzied jumble of mating.
