Jellyfish don't regrow limbs—they simply work with what they've got.

NATURE
Bombardier beetles share their name with Air Force crews who drop bombs for a reason.
When a presidential candidate says adults in America are suffering from a "fun deficit," you know it's time to take the issue seriously. The following 20 camps are alternative ways to spend your allotted vacation time.
With their incredibly strong teeth for cutting down trees and adaptions for semi-aquatic living, beavers are nature's wetlands engineers.
Sure, cane toads seem pretty innocuous. But as several countries have discovered, it's one of the most invasive species on the planet.
From burrowing in the soil to popping baby frogs out of their backs, the frogs in this list have some very strange habits.
They look cute and cuddly, but koalas are straight-up miracles of evolution. Here are a few surprising things you might not have known about koalas.
Just over a century ago, the world’s last passenger pigeon died at Ohio’s Cincinnati Zoo on September 1. The extinction set off a worldwide bird conservation movement.
In 2010, a group of scientists went on an expedition into the Abanda caves in the rainforest of Gabon. Among the many creatures they found there—bats, snakes, moths, spiders, crickets, scorpions and other insects and arachnids—there was a surprise: An ora
The oldest known trees are thousands of years old. The ancient plants have witnessed the rise and fall of multiple civilizations.
Geckos and shrubs and sharks, oh my! 2013 was a big year for new species. Scientists found hundreds of them this year. Here are some of our favorites.
There’s only one thing in this world shaped like an egg. Not exactly spherical, not exactly an oval, it’s kind of hard to describe what an egg looks like. “Asymmetric tapered oval”? Sure, why not.
Tall tales don't get much taller than America's most beloved lumberjack, Paul Bunyan. Here are 11 natural wonders he's said to have constructed.
When I saw the Caribbean Sea in person for the first time, my eyes metaphorically popped out of my head. As a kid who grew up in South Jersey, I was used to the dirty, almost brown, kinda-sorta blue color of the coastal Atlantic Ocean. But this was differ
Depending on who you ask, ingested creepy crawlies can vary from three, to eight, and even zero.
In 2008, an international team of scientists was trudging through the forests of Vietnam’s Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park when they found a frog they didn’t recognize. Actually, no one recognized it, at least not formally. It was new to science and the speci
In the wild, giant panda mating occurs just as nature specials would have you believe. There’s intense competition for each female, and the dominant male will mate with her several times to ensure success. And that strategy works: Wild female pandas gener