240 mph, no engine: meet the peregrine falcon

The mantis shrimp punches like a bullet. A 2025 study explains why it survives.

The panther chameleon's eyes are security cameras, and CT scans just solved a 2,000-year-old mystery

That horn is a tooth: the narwhal's tusk, inside and out

Monarch butterflies fly 2,500 miles to a forest they have never seen

This sea slug steals solar panels

The Komodo dragon has iron-tipped teeth, and five things you don't know about Earth's largest lizard

The only parrot that can't fly: the kākāpō, back from 18 birds to 325

The honey fungus under an Oregon forest may be 8,000 years old – and nobody knows for sure

It swims with its ears: meet the dumbo octopus

This dolphin steals from fish: meet Bubbles

The corpse flower smells like death – and heats itself up to spread the stink

This fish passed the mirror test – the cleaner wrasse recognizes its own face

The axolotl never grows up – and it can regrow parts of its brain

This is not a flower. It's a mushroom that grows in a week.

Scientists think this cuttlefish is colorblind. Watch its skin.