In Hawaii, a rare carnivorous caterpillar was discovered to engage in a truly gruesome behavior. It disguises itself in the [ ...

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings ...

On this week's episode: bone collector caterpillar, dolphins pee on each other, using cars to sample air, and obsidian ...

Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from operating Mars rovers to exploring Antarctica's hidden ...

We associate animals with the places where they originate, but sometimes it’s their new homes where they really thrive.

The Bronx Zoo in New York is using a specially designed hand puppet to feed its new king vulture chick, which is intended to ...

Aptly nicknamed the “bone collector,” the larva haunts a six-square-mile patch of Oahu’s Wai‘anae Mountains, lurking exclusively in spider webs and disguising itself in the corpses of its prey.

Elon Musk has for years made Texas a business home and playground. Now a small patch of coastal South Texas — home to his ...

Deep in the Waiʻanae mountains of Oʻahu lives one of the strangest creatures ever discovered. And it’s not what you’d expect. It’s a caterpillar. But it doesn’t eat leaves. It doesn’t spin ...

Superman already has a lot on his shoulders. It seems unfair to add the fate of the summer movie season to his list. But he’s ...

Betsy Arakawa, the concert pianist who was married to actor Gene Hackman, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according ...

Morning, y’all! I try to maintain a journaling practice, but it can be difficult to decide what to say, in the same way someone asking, “What do you want to eat?” makes you immediately forget what ...