Animals can work just as hard as people — and even harder than some folks. We’ve all heard of police and support dogs, and perhaps you even know about working cats, like the U.K. Foreign Ministry’s Chief Mouser. But there are other kinds of animals that carry out important jobs besides dogs and cats. Often, …
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There are many amazing and bizarre animals out there in the wild. Many creatures are strange as they are, and things can get even weirder if they produce a hybrid. But occasionally, news breaks of animals that seem just too weird to be real. That’s often because they are. We’ve seen a lot of hoaxes …
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Here are more jellyfish fun facts for National Jellyfish Day! Can you hardly wait? Not only that, but box jellyfish can also move up to six meters per minute! The shelf-like shape of their bells allows them to catch and expel water more quickly than most jellies, which simply drift with the current. That is …
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What do you know about jellyfish? Today is National Jellyfish Day and a bunch of fun facts to go with it. Jellyfish do not have scales, gills, or fins like fish because they are not fish. They are 98% water. Jellyfish have one orifice that does the job of both the mouth and the anus. …
Nature can be freaky, so it only makes sense that the creatures living in nature occasionally get freaky as well. Sometimes, two animals of different species end up doing the deed and producing offspring. That little freak of nature is called a hybrid. Some hybrids are very well known and even intentionally produced, like mules. …
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Animals come in plenty of different colors and patterns. Many times, their colors blend into their surroundings perfectly, rendering the creatures virtually invisible. Other times, they have the exact opposite effect. Some animals sport colorations so bright, garish, and flamboyant that they’re basically screaming, “Look at me!” Here are eight critters from the bottom of …
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You can find a lot of things living in New York City’s sewers. There are cockroaches, rats, and probably some kind of a race of underground morlocks. What you won’t find is the sewers’ most famous resident. Although rumors of its existence have circulated for a century, NYC’s legendary sewer alligator is nothing but a …
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We know some animals are big, like elephants or giraffes. But until you actually see one — ideally in its natural habitat — you often can’t quite grasp just how big they actually are. And then there are the animals that are usually fairly compact but have outlier species that grow to absolutely massive sizes. …
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There’s something weird going on with the wildlife on the British Isles. Remember how their squirrels are destroying both local homes and trees? Well, now their foxes are eating their cars. No, we’re not kidding. Foxes in southern England have apparently developed a taste for automobiles. Instead of wanting to drive them, though, they’re devouring …
We know them as puppies, kitties, and bunnies. Biologists and some other kinds of nerds know them as Canis lupus familiaris, Felis catus, and Oryctolagus cuniculus. The scientific naming system, or binomial nomenclature, helps researchers classify and organize different species. Developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century, the system assigns each species a two-part …
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