Animals

The spectacle of spring bird migration is in full swing, and you can get in on the action

Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by covering itself with dead insect body parts

 In a new book called Slither, Stephen S. Hall takes a deep dive into the biology and history of one of the most reviled animals.

Baby warty birch caterpillars vibrate when threatened—before swinging away like Spider-Man

This week’s news roundup covers measles and whooping cough cases, evidence of a carbon cycle on Mars and the first glimpse at a colossal squid in its natural habitat.

A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent expedition, and it turned out to be a baby

Scientists are studying why some species live so much longer than others

Long thought to be loners, male African elephants turn out to have surprisingly rich social lives

Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins

Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across the Sahara

Crows can tell the shapes of stars from those of moons and symmetrical quadrilaterals from unsymmetrical ones, new results show

This discovery adds to a growing list of how animals talk with their urine