This video examines a spider considered the most venomous in the world, challenging a widely held assumption about where such ...
You probably know that the king cobra is the largest venomous snake known to humans, but what if this isn’t entirely true? It ...
Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...
It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could also have bounced ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...