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Darren Incorvaia

By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to tell its mate ‘after you’

Be it an arched eyebrow, a shaken head or a raised finger, humans wordlessly communicate complex ideas...

A decades-old mystery has been solved with the help of newfound bee species

In 1965, renowned bee biologist Charles Michener described a new species of masked bee from “an entirely...

On hot summer days, this thistle is somehow cool to the touch

In the mountains of southern Spain, one type of thistle plant seems to have built-in air conditioning....

This weird fern is the first known plant that turns its dead leaves into new roots

To get by in the waterlogged, low-nutrient soil of the Quebrada Chorro forest in western Panama, a...

Some honeybees in Italy regularly steal pollen off the backs of bumblebees

Honeybees rely on plant pollen as a protein-packed food source. And some are even willing to steal...

This first-of-its-kind palm plant flowers and fruits entirely underground

Palm trees are often associated with Hollywood Boulevard and tropical resorts, but their relatives in the palm...

Here’s how much fruit you can take from a display before it collapses

If you take more than 10 percent of the fruit in a stacked produce display —...

These are our favorite animal stories of 2023

From birds repurposing antiavian architecture to jellyfish that can learn, here are dispatches from the animal kingdom...