2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (365+ words) . . . instead of dying it shrinks in on itself, reabsorbing its tentacles and losing the ability to swim. It then settles on the seafloor as a blob-like cyst." Over the next 24 to 36 hours, this blob develops into a new polyp " the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (275+ words) Zoe the kitten certainly does look like a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Even knowing how squishy kittens are, it looked like this one was gonna blow. Too many cartoons, or Monty Python sketches, came to mind for…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (279+ words) In the second experiment, researchers scattered small crystals " quartz, calcite, and pyrite " into piles of ordinary pebbles. The chimps sorted them out immediately. A chimp named Sandy carried pebbles and crystals to a wooden platform in her mouth, then separated…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (381+ words) Meet Sphaerocoris annulatus, the jewel bug that looks like it was painted by an artist. People even call this creature the "Picasso Bug" as a nickname. The Picasso Bug is commonly found in tropical regions, including Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (268+ words) Once inside the nest, the con pays off: caterpillars either get fed by their unwitting hosts or eat the colony's young. "It's really a demanding thing to break this code," said Konrad Fiedler, a Vienna-based entomologist not involved in the…...