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Could one hundred dudes fight one gorilla? Despite the humans' numerical advantage, it'll still be a close matchup, according to researchers.
Science & Energy

Ape Researchers Evaluate Whether 100 Furious Men Could Bludgeon a Gorilla to Death

By Frank Landymore

A new species of caterpillar called the "bone collector" strips the body parts of its slain enemies and uses them to make a gruesome suit.
Science & Energy

Extremely Metal “Bone Collector” Caterpillar Cloaks Itself in the Shattered Exoskeletons of Its Vanquished Foes

By Frank Landymore

There's a big catch to the first ever footage of a colossal squid capturing roaming in its natural habitat.
Science & Energy

Scientists Take First Ever Video of Colossal Squid in the Wild… With One Comical Issue

By Frank Landymore

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once revived.
Science & Energy

Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Trump interior secretary Doug Burgum said that the endangered species is too big and suggested that the future of conservation is in cloning.
Science & Energy

Trump Official Says It’s Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

By Frank Landymore

The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its competition.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies

By Frank Landymore

What you're witnessing is translocation, and it's saved the lives of hundreds of critically endangered black rhinos.
Science & Energy

Behold This Bonkers Photo of a 2,800-Pound Rhino Dangling Upside Down From a Helicopter

By Frank Landymore

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded a species of shark actively producing a sound. And it's not what you'd expect.
Science & Energy

It Turns Out Sharks Make Noises, and Here’s What They Sound Like

By Frank Landymore

An elderly elephant named Viola was found ambling through Butte, Montana on Tuesday after escaping a traveling circus.
Science & Energy

Elephant Escapes Circus, Thunders Through Montana City

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This so-called nematode trapping fungus is a crafty, efficient killer that will quickly switch from prey to predator once it senses a worm.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Carnivorous Fungus That Devours Worms

By Frank Landymore

Our primate predecessors may have enjoyed masturbation for millions of years before we ever entered the picture.
Science & Energy

Scientists Ponder When Our Ancestors First Started Cranking the Hog

By Frank Landymore

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.
Mars

Furious Marsupial So Thirsty For Sex That It’s Dying, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Colossal Sciences, a self-branded "de-extinction" company, has rallied another significant amount of funding and has completed sequencing a dodo genome.
Science & Energy

Startup Backed By “Jurassic World” Producer Says It Will Revive Extinct Dodo Using Complete Genome

By Frank Landymore

Turns out, all you need is a million dollar laser that can shoot high energy pulses at an absurdly fast rate, and you can maybe divert lightning.
Science & Energy

Scientists Test System for Controlling Where Lightning Strikes Hit Using Lasers

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that stranded dolphins may be tragically suffering from Alzheimer's disease — a possible boon to the "sick leader" theory.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Have an Extremely Grim Theory About Stranded Dolphins

By Frank Landymore

Thanks to one prudent local in Wyoming, we now to get to behold a rare and extremely picturesque Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud.
Science & Energy

Please Take a Moment and Enjoy This Beautifully Peaceful Cloud Formation

By Frank Landymore