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Bad News About That Corgi Leading a Pack of Stolen Dogs Home
The story gained traction not because it was true, but because it felt true. Or, maybe more accurately, people wanted it to be true.
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Manuel Romaris/Getty Images Hummingbirds Drink a Ton of Alcoholic Nectar, But Do They Get Drunk?
We are desperate to know whether we have drinking buddies out there in the animal kingdom.
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Little Corgi Leads 7 Stolen Dogs 10 Miles Back Home, and People Are Obsessed
The video of the dogs has racked up over 230 million views, as it seems specifically engineered for wild social media success.
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Silaphop Pongsai/Getty Images Freaky New Spider Disguises Itself as Zombie Fungus to Hunt Prey
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have identified a spider species that survives by playing dead.
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Wildestanimal/Getty Images Whales Were Filmed Headbutting Each Other for the First Time. Why Are They Doing It?
Scientists have, for the first time, captured clear footage of sperm whales repeatedly ramming each other headfirst.
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Boonchai Wedmakawand/Getty Images Why This College Kid Sacrificed Himself to a Massive Swarm of Mosquitoes
Understanding what even attracts mosquitoes the first place could finally tilt the odds in our favor.
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Mark Metcalfe/Stringer/Getty Images Scientists Just Found Out the Platypus Is Even Weirder Than We Thought
The more we learn about the platypus, the more it seems like it’s the product of Mother Nature going through a weird experimental phase.
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By Wildestanimal/Getty Images Sharks in the Bahamas Are Full of Cocaine, Caffeine, and Painkillers
Species affected included nurse sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, and a juvenile lemon shark.
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Dr. Manfred Schartl/Texas A&M This Fish Can Clone Itself Without Any Weird Clone Defects
These fish have solved the evolutionary problem scientists assumed would wipe them out in the most science fiction way possible.
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Photo: Nils Jacobi / Getty Images Scientists Just Found a New Reason Cats Always Land on Their Feet
Which sounds about right, given everything we’ve seen about cats.
