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October 20, 2015

Found: Rare beetle collected by Darwin 180 years ago

A brightly colored beetle collected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a new species after hiding in museum storage for decades.

October 20, 2015

For male spiders, it's twerk or be eaten

Miley Cyrus may have made "twerking" a household word, but male black widow spiders are the real masters of the rump-jiggling dance move.

October 20, 2015

Meet the castle-raiding 'pillage ant'

A new species of ant that raids the acorn castles of other insects and captures them as slaves has been discovered on the forest floors of the northeastern United States.

October 20, 2015

Mystery of bizarre Amazon web formations unraveled

About six months ago, a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology first spotted a mysterious web unlike anything scientists had seen before: Each one of the weird webs was a tiny sphere surrounded by a circular fence less than an inch in diameter.

October 20, 2015

A tale of 2 setters? Study says dogs pick up on subtle signal from tail wags to left or right

The way Fido wags his tail might reveal more about him than you know. Just ask another dog.

October 20, 2015

Kraken rises: New fossil evidence of 'sea monster'

Did a giant kraken troll the Triassic seas, crushing ichthyosaurs and arranging their bones into pleasing patterns?

October 20, 2015

Beaver butts emit goo used in vanilla flavored foods

Next time you pick up a vanilla candy, think twice. A chemical compound used in vanilla flavored foods and scents comes from the butt of a beaver.

October 20, 2015

First face? Prehistoric fish was a jawdropper

The earliest known species with what we would recognize as a face was an armored, beady-eyed prehistoric fish, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.

October 20, 2015

Blue-footed boobies suddenly expand range in California

High-diving seabirds known as blue-footed boobies have suddenly expanded their range in California.

October 20, 2015

It's a shark eat shark world, photo reveals

Here’s an oceanic enigma: What’s the word for a bait fish stuffed inside a dogfish shark, stuffed inside a sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus)?