Animals

A microbe can grow a neck that is 30 times as long as its body in just a few seconds. Origami folding explains how

Millions of hand-size Joro spiders are moving up the East Coast. Don’t panic

H5N1 is running rampant through dairy cows, putting humans at risk of an epidemic

By performing tricks for birds, monkeys and other creatures, researchers hope to learn how they perceive and think about their world

Female elephants address one another with individualized rumbles

Drought is facilitating the devastating spread of spongy moth caterpillars across U.S. forests

Why are bears both adorable and deadly? Scientific American investigates why these apex predators are “friend-shaped”

Most orangutans take seven years to learn to make their own beds

Make the best of the “double brood” of cicadas with insect kimchi and tempura-fried bugs.

Scientists reveal the face of Australia’s massive, extinct “giga-goose”

Solar storms that create auroras affect Earth’s magnetic field and may cause migratory species, such as many whales and birds, to lose their way

Plainfin midshipmen migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, and that’s when things really get loud