Articles for tag: Animal Mysteries, Biological Puzzles, mysterious creatures, wildlife science

monarch butterfly on brown sand during daytime

10 Enduring Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom Science Can’t Solve Yet

Suhail Ahmed

  For all our satellites, gene sequencers, and supercomputers, some of the most stubborn scientific mysteries are still hiding in fur, feather, and bone. Animals continue to break the rules we thought we understood, bending the laws of navigation, memory, communication, and even death. Researchers have notebooks full of data, but again and again the ...

Alaska's Ice Worms Are Melting Back Into Mystery

Alaska’s Ice Worms Are Melting Back Into Mystery

Gargi Chakravorty

Picture something straight out of a science fiction movie. On mountaintop glaciers of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, billions of tiny black worms are tunneling upward to the barren, icy surface. Measuring about a half-inch in length and thin as threads of dental floss, ice worms (Mesenchytraeus solifugus) dot glaciers throughout the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, ...