Would You Wear Clothing Made of Slime?
Scientists think hagfish slime could be the next eco-friendly, high-performance material.
These Baby Toads Burst Out Of Their Mom's Back
Like popping pimples? Then you'll love how the Surinam toad gives birth.
What are Tonsil Stones?
If you’ve got white lumps in your throat, they could be tonsil stones or “tonsilloliths.”
Barnacle Penises Can Teach You A Ton About Biology
Well-endowed barnacles can change the size and shape of their penises. It’s a great example of something called phenotypic plasticity.
The Strangest Use For Bacon... Ever?
Everyone loves bacon. Even parasitic botflies living under your skin.
What Lives In Cheese?
What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it, of course!
You Have Mites Living On Your Face
Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face.
Can Cocaine Make Your Ears Rot?
Cocaine is being mixed with a dangerous drug called levamisole that can destroy white blood cells and kill your skin—especially your earlobes.
Why Do These Babies Eat Their Mother's Skin?
Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.
Could Kangaroo Farts Curb Global Warming?
Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere. Can other animals, like kangaroos, teach us how to make cow gas more eco-friendly?
Can Poop Cure an Infection?
Fecal transplants-putting one person's poop into another person's gut-are surprisingly effective cures for the dangerous bacterial infection, Clostridium difficile.
Sea Cucumber Evisceration
Sea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves, shooting their internal organs through either their head or their butt.
How Different Diseases Make You Smell
What's making you sick? You might be able to tell based on how you smell.
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