Remember when kids used to flip through encyclopedias to learn fun facts? Well, in today's digital age you don’t need a thick ...

Hundreds of dragonflies of different species will gather in swarms, either for feeding or migration. Little is known about this often short-lived behavior, but the Dragonfly Swarm Project is ...

(via BBC Earth Science) From life after beheading (like the chicken that survived 18 months) and zombie ants to the millions of mites on your face and lakes that turn you to stone, we’re bringing you ...

While they won’t be pulling Santa’s sleigh anytime soon, Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) objectively ...

A red panda at Smithsonian's National Zoo. Katie Fancher, Smithsonian Science Education Center Red pandas use sounds to communicate, but the sounds are generally very quiet. Sounds they use for ...