cicada

Planet Earth

Cicadas Will Soon Bring a Noisy Start to the 2025 Summer as Brood XIV Emerges

northern long-nosed bandicoot (Perameles pallescens)

Photoluminescence Makes These Mousy Australian Mammals Glow 

Tardigrade tattoos

The Sciences

Tardigrade Tattoos Could Pave the Way for Microscopic Medical Devices

Middle Island Sinkhole Core Collection

Lake Huron's Middle Island Sinkhole Could Help Us Understand Earth's Evolution 

Head basiceros

Ancient Amber Has Kept a Dirt Ant Frozen in Time For 16 Million Years

Nematode ecdysozoa

Fossils Solve a Nervous System Mystery in Molting Animals 

Ancient crocodile

A Crocodile Equipped with Armadillo Armor Once Roamed Earth

A round ray (Urolophus halleri) sitting above the sand. 

Stingray-Shark Mating Isn't Possible, Even if a Lone Stingray Ends up Pregnant

A rendering of a pleurocystitid and a robot modeled after a pleurocystitid.

Technology

An Ancient Stingray Lookalike Inspires Underwater Soft Robotics

1934 photo purported to be the Loch Ness Monster

The Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster: Sightings and Theories You Need to Know

A reconstruction of the pelagic ecosystem and the organisms fossilised in Sirius Passet, revealing how Timorebestia was one of the largest predators in the water column more than 518 million years ago

518 Million Years Ago, the Biggest, Baddest Predators Were… Worms?

A cute, colorful jumping spider sits on a leaf

Meet the Jumping Spider, the World’s Most Adorable Arachnid

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不寻常的生物

蝉将很快在2025年夏天喧闹登场，Brood XIV 即将破土而出

这些像老鼠一样的澳大利亚哺乳动物因光致发光而发光

水熊虫纹身或为微型医疗设备铺平道路

休伦湖中岛天坑或有助于我们了解地球演化

古老的琥珀将一只土蚁冻结在1600万年的时间里

化石揭示蜕皮动物神经系统之谜

披甲恐鳄曾漫步地球

鳐鱼和鲨鱼不可能交配，即使单独的鳐鱼怀孕

古老的黄貂鱼外观启发了水下软体机器人技术

寻找尼斯湖水怪：你需要知道的目击和理论

5.18亿年前，最大最坏的掠食者是……蠕虫？

认识跳蛛，世界上最可爱的蛛形纲动物

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