November 20, 2015 These birds have a mating dance that would put Gene Kelly to shame On first glance, the courtship of the blue-capped cordon-bleu songbirds looks rather uneventful. The birds, perched next to each other, begin singing and appear to nervously hop. But on closer inspection, they appear to be doing the avian version of a tap dance. Researchers, armed with high-speed cameras, were able to slow things down and catch this behavior that until now had largely gone undetected.
November 19, 2015 GMO salmon could be headed to supermarket near you The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat, paving the way for the first altered animals to one day reach supermarket shelves.
November 19, 2015 New scary spider found in Brazil named after 'Lord of the Rings' character Writing in the journal ZooKeys, researchers said the new species of troglobitic harvestman spider, landumoema smeagol, is believed to be found only in a network of caves in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.
November 12, 2015 Watch cute panda cub Bei Bei take his first steps Smithsonian’s National Zoo has released adorable footage of panda cub Bei Bei taking his first steps.
November 11, 2015 Orangutan mother and baby escape forest fires, stoning by villagers A photo of an endangered orangutan and her baby after they survived forest fires and stoning by villagers in Indonesia has gone viral, racking up more than 18,000 shares on Facebook.
November 9, 2015 Fossils of rats as big as dogs found in Southeast Asia The rats in the New York’s subways may be scary but they would have been no match for relatives who once lived in Southeast Asia.
November 6, 2015 Improved fingerprinting tech could catch elephant poachers Law enforcement agencies have gotten pretty good at intercepting illegal shipments of ivory, using the confiscated tusks from poached African elephants to demonstrate they are cracking down on this illicit trade. But they have been less successful at finding the culprits behind the shipments – partly because it has been impossible to retrieve fingerprints from the ivory.
November 6, 2015 'Cat Heaven Island' draws tourists and more cats Photographer Fubirai has spent more than half a decade documenting the lives of the semi-wild cats that roam Fukuoka, Japan, a small island known to locals as “Cat Heaven.”
November 5, 2015 Internet finds world's grumpiest cat, named Tardar Sauce Some people are just born angry. And so too, it seems, are some cats. Tardar Sauce has become Internet-famous for its astoundingly grumpy face.
