https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/jaw-on-the-floor-entire-chunk-of-feathered-dinosaur-discovered-in-amber/ "There are times – good times – a biologist may experience the overwhelming urge to use an obscenity. This is one such time. That’s
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http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/24/this-mouse-turns-agonising-scorpion-venom-into-a-painkiller/ This little creature from the south-western USA attacks and eats bark scorpions—a group of large arachnids, whose stings are incredibly painful and often fatal.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/amphibious-centipede-discovered-laos-scolopendra-cataracta-new-species/ This giant (up to 8" or 20 cm long), venomous creepy-crawly is as comfortable swimming and walking underwater as it is on land, in
Researchers have long puzzled over the mechanisms that monarch butterflies use to navigate thousands of miles each year, back and forth from their wintering grounds
"A well-known survival tactic in the natural world is an organism mimicking the appearance of something else in order to fool predators. Leafy-looking insects are
National Geographic talks about some animal tricksters that don’t limit their sneakiness to one day a year. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160401-animals-april-fools-day-spiders-tricks/
A report of this ten-million-year-old fossilised snake has shown for the first time that mineralised tissues can preserve evidence of colour, shedding new light
After being discovered at California's Folsom State Prison, one of 14 new tarantula species has been named after the 'man in black'.http://m.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0205/Eight-legged-Johnny-Cash-Tarantula-spider-species-named-for-singer
Jurassic butterfly relative fossil discovered in China. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/jurassic-butterflies-predated-true-butterflies-50-million-years
http://news.discovery.com/animals/500-pound-bird-was-eaten-to-extinction-by-humans-160129.htm An apparently very tasty, 500-pound Australian bird was eaten to extinction by humans 50,000 years ago, new research concludes.
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