The dark-footed ant-spider Myrmarachne melanotarsa not only mimics ants to protect themselves from predators, but also to feast on the eggs and youngsters of the very same spiders that its ant-like form protects it from.
Tentacled snakes take advantage of the stereotyped escape response from fish programmed in by short-latency but inflexible giant neurons.
Plant cells are induced to grow as a froth instead of with the usual structure.
High levels of carbon dioxide in the oceans may be causing mutations in fish, specifically affecting the bones in a fish’s ear.
For vervet monkeys, grooming works like a biological market governed by the laws of supply and demand.
Lions seem to live in groups not because it improves hunting, but rather because of territorial competition.
The nervous system of hemichordates appear to be organized like what would be expected from a central nervous system.
Echidna males will happily mate with females even if they're hibernating.
Hitting an analog of Titan's atmosphere with soft radiation in the laboratory yielded a complex mixture of organic molecules.
After a female seed beetle mate with two different males, it's actually the sperm from the lower-quality specimen that fertilises most of her eggs.
