Bizarre News Spiders Pay Back the Dream-Like Sleep They Lost A jumping spider that misses a night of REM-like sleep spends the next night making it up.
Bizarre News A Giant Fungus in a Family of Its Own Fifty centimetres tall, 2.2 kilograms, and a lineage that starts as the dinosaurs exit.
Bizarre News A Flattened Amphibian That Lived Its Whole Life at Sea Amphibian skin is permeable. This animal appears to have grown up offshore anyway.
Bizarre News Mass Bird Migration Defies Weather Patterns Two million geese alter route avoiding undetected weather systems
Bizarre News 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Found with Crab-Like Claws in Amber "100-million-year-old insect fossil discovered in Myanmar amber shows crab-like claws, challenging understanding of arthropod evolution and convergent evolution"
Bizarre News Two "Lazarus" Marsupials Rediscovered Alive After 6,000 Years Species known only from fossils found thriving in New Guinea's Cyclops Mountains
Bizarre News 1,100 New Deep-Sea Species Found — Including "Ghost Shark" with Eyes 1/3 Size of Its Head The Ocean Census discovers we're still strangers to our own planet
Bizarre News Starling Murmurations Over Delhi Create Natural Drone Show Thousands of birds create breathtaking aerial displays
Bizarre News [Prehistoric Animal with Bizarre Jaw Discovery] Fossil Reveals 275-Million-Year-Old Creature with Jaw Unlike Any Known Vertebrate
Bizarre News Scientists Film Creature at 30,000 Feet That Defies Classification — "Animalia Incerta Sedis" A ghostly organism at the bottom of the Ryukyu Trench has taxonomic experts worldwide scratching their heads
Bizarre News City Birds Fear Women More Than Men — And Scientists Have No Idea Why A five-country study of 37 bird species reveals a consistent, unexplained gender bias in avian threat perception
Bizarre News Scientists Film Unclassifiable 'Mystery Animal' at 9,100 Metres — and It Doesn't Fit Any Known Branch of Life Deepest oceans reveal a creature that has taxonomists stumped at the species, genus, family, and possibly phylum level.
Bizarre News India's Jatinga Village: Where Birds Have Committed Suicide for Over a Century Unexplained mass avian deaths continue to baffle ornithologists
Bizarre News New Tarantula Genus So Bizarre Scientists Had to Invent Satyrex Classification Spider discovery so unusual that scientists created entirely new genus classification for unprecedented features
Bizarre News Tool-Using Cow Stuns Scientists with Flexible Problem-Solving Austrian cow demonstrates sophisticated multi-context tool manipulation previously unseen in cattle
Bizarre News Cleaner Wrasse Fish Show Self-Awareness in Mirror Tests Marine creatures pass sophisticated consciousness test faster than previous experiments
Bizarre News Hedgehogs Hear Ultrasound: Discovery Could Save Them From Road Deaths Supersonic hearing ability opens path to ultrasonic car repellents
Bizarre News Bonobo Shows Imagination in Pretend Play Breakthrough Kanzi successfully tracks imaginary objects during tea party experiments
Bizarre News Fish Pass Mirror Test, Expanding Circle of Self-Aware Animals Cleaner wrasse show self-recognition abilities previously limited to mammals and birds
Bizarre News Tool-Using Cow Rewrites Animal Intelligence Assumptions Veronika demonstrates flexible tool use previously seen only in chimpanzees
Bizarre News Platypus Hair Breaks 50-Year-Old Biological Rule Microscopic Structures Found Only in Birds Discovered in World's Weirdest Mammal
Bizarre News Secret World Discovered 11,000 Feet Below Arctic Ice Scientists find thriving ecosystem in one of Earth's most impossible places