Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

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Platypuses are so weird scientists sliced them open because they thought they were fake. But why? Male platypus have ven ...

Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered bizarre “platypus galaxies” in the early universe, exhibiting an unusual ...

The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

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Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

One of Australia's rarest - and most loved - animals has been found drowned, entangled in fishing tackle in the Queanbeyan ...