We tell spooky stories about teeth, talons, and stingers, but the scariest thing in nature might be what happens when these animals disappear. Remove a predator and entire food webs wobble; lose a scavenger and pathogens get a free ride. The surprising twist is that many creatures people dread are the same ones quietly keeping ...
On a sunlit reef, where most eyes register a pretty blur of blues, a mantis shrimp is reading a hidden newspaper of light. Its gaze cuts the water into razor-thin slices of color and polarization, decoding messages most animals never notice. Biologists say its vision is less like a painter’s palette and more like a ...
Beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, scientists have uncovered a chilling new threat lurking in the deep. Parasitic creatures, dubbed “undersea vampires,” have been found feeding on the flesh of unsuspecting fish. The Horrifying Discovery Beneath Antarctic Waters In a discovery that seems ripped right out of a sci-fi horror flick, scientists investigating the ...
