Clad in all kinds of ornate and beautiful colors, the butterfly is a winged insect that flies from flower to flower, consuming the rich, sugary nectar inside. There are nearly 20,000 species of ...

Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) feed on birds and small mammals. They can go days or weeks without eating, but when they ...

Tawny crazy ants in Florida number in the millions, asphyxiate their prey and create huge supercolonies that are nearly ...

Which NFL teams look awesome? Which ... don't? And who will be rocking new alternates, including "Rivalries" unis, during the 2025 season?

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

Do whales, dolphins and dugongs really exist in Malaysian waters? Yes, they do — and they’re not just passing through. They ...

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the coast of Southern California. Some sea lions are now being released back into ...

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers looked billions of years into the past to learn more about the potential ...