Animals

Bats often get a bad rap for being scary, nighttime flying creatures, but to know a bat is to love a bat.
Karin Heineman, Executive Producer
Bats calculate where their prey is headed using their echolocation abilities.
Inside Science Contributor
The finest silk wrapping can keep females occupied for just long enough.
Joshua Learn, Contributor
The mega-mawed spider appeared to use the water to reconstitute dried-up food.
Jude Coleman, Contributor
The intelligence of crows is nothing to squawk about.
Jude Coleman, Contributor
The chimps may be using insects as a kind of medicine.
James Gaines, Contributor
The aerial acrobat is less than half a millimeter long.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
The kunga, a highly sought-after technological advance in Mesopotamia, may be the oldest known hybrid animal bred by humans.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
Study suggests the dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA first evolved naturally.
Brian Owens, Contributor
Researchers hope the tiny moth ears could someday inspire improvements to cell phones and hearing aids.
Nala Rogers, Staff Writer
A newfound millipede with 1,306 legs has the most legs of any known animal, researchers say.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
The genes involved in hydra regeneration and development could offer clues about immortality.
Katharine Gammon, Contributor