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Young honeybees can’t perfect waggling on their own after all. Without older sisters to practice with, youngsters fail to nail distances. → Read More
By sharing fish with their adult sons, orca moms may skimp on nutrition, cutting their chances of more offspring but boosting the odds for grandwhales. → Read More
A mimosa plant revs up tiny clumps of specially shaped cells that collapse its leaflets, though why isn’t clear. → Read More
In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more. → Read More
Glass frogs snoozing among leaves blend in by hiding almost all their red blood cells in their liver until the tiny animals wake up. → Read More
A male wasp’s genital spines can save his life in an encounter with a scary tree frog, a new study shows. → Read More
The first published photo sequence of developing Pelmatops flies shows how their eyes rise on gangly stalks in the first hour of adulthood. → Read More
Poppy seed–sized cousins of insects, famed for wild escape leaping, right themselves in mid-falls faster than cats. → Read More
New high-speed filming gives a first glimpse of mosquito hunting too fast for humans to see. → Read More
Pahrump poolfish flunked a fear test, but maybe they’re scared of other things. → Read More
Anti-Asian hate crimes helped push U.S. entomologists to give a colorful insect initially dubbed the Asian giant hornet a less inflammatory name. → Read More
Five unusual species of spider moms let youngsters live at home way past the cute waddling baby phase. → Read More
Serenading with like voices may help male wood frogs woo females into their pools, analysis of individual voices in a frog choir shows. → Read More
Some jack-in-the-pulpit plants may use sex to lure pollinators. That's confusing for male fungus gnats — and deadly. → Read More
Taking the pulse (literally) of female jorō spiders hints that the arachnid might push farther north than a relative that has stayed put in the South. → Read More
The EPA also OK’d more trials in Key West, Fla. Both states now get their say in whether to release free-flying Aedes aegypti to sabotage their own kind. → Read More
Hundreds of handmade clay nubbins test the notion that a beetle’s metallic high gloss could confound predators. Birds pecked the lovely idea to death. → Read More
Mating mobs of big, hapless, 17-year-old cicadas made for a memorable spring in the Eastern United States → Read More
In all the fuss over planting trillions of trees, we need to protect the forests that already exist. → Read More
2021’s first “murder hornet” is yet another arrival. This is the not-so-new normal. → Read More