October 20, 2015 Bugged by the billions: East Coast about to see power of big numbers in coming cicada invasion Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground and overrun parts of the East Coast.
October 20, 2015 Possible invasion of air-breathing, predatory fish has NYC officials on alert The state's Department of Environmental Conservation is asking fishermen in the Harlem Meer to be on the lookout for the northern snakehead fish, a predatory creature native to Asia.
October 20, 2015 Live exotic creatures sold for hundreds of thousands, DA says Thousands of living beings worth half a million bucks were stripped from their homeland in China and Australia, shipped halfway around the world and sold in the U.S., the district attorney alleged Monday.
October 20, 2015 Southpaws: Girls are lefties, boys are righties -- in some critters anyway Female opossums are more likely to prefer using their left front paw for eating, leaning and gathering nest materials. Male opposums, on the other hand, go with the right more often.
October 20, 2015 Whoa! Mutant tadpoles sprout eyeballs on their tails Eyes hooked up to the tail can help blinded tadpoles see, researchers say
October 20, 2015 Wow! Dung beetles navigate by the stars Despite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source.
October 20, 2015 Yale prof names ancient lizard after Obama Obamadon gracilis, a newly identified lizard named in honor of President Barack Obama, crawled the swamps and forests in the time of the dinosaurs.
October 20, 2015 Deadliest sea snake splits in two The deadliest sea snake has a secret — it is actually two sea snake species, as pointed out by Ed Yong in his blog Not Exactly Rocket Science.
October 20, 2015 Panda cub died of liver problems, National Zoo scientists say National Zoo scientists have determined a 6-day-old giant panda cub's death last month wasn't momma bear's fault, and life was returning to normal Thursday for giant panda Mei Xiang.
October 16, 2015 Scientists go in search of elusive river shark For decades, stories persisted of a shark that navigated rivers of Asia and the South Pacific, sometimes taking a chunk out of the unsuspecting bathers or those washing their clothes. But few people had actually seen one of these critically endangered predators.
