The fish that inspired the battery: meet the electric eel

The gecko that feels your footsteps

The vampire bat that shares its dinner

Honey bees have to learn their famous dance

The barn owl that glows – and hunts facing the moon

The star-nosed mole smells underwater – and eats faster than any other mammal

Wombats are the only animals that poop cubes – here's how their gut does it

The snow leopard does not roar – meet the ghost of the mountains

They thought the platypus was sewn together – it took 85 years to prove it lays eggs

This sunflower is moving – you're just watching plants at the wrong frame rate

Clownfish can count – they check the stripes on a rival before they fight

This frog hides its blood to turn transparent – here's where it goes

The glowing "space jellyfish" was a rocket carrying artificial retinas #dailywonder #earthdotcom

The ants that were farming 66 million years ago

This leaf hid for 177 years: the giant water lily taken for a known species

Up to 60 mph, headfirst: how the northern gannet survives its dive

The Arctic tern's lifetime of flying equals three trips to the moon

The African antelope that's living wild in New Mexico

Biggest fish, smallest teeth: meet the whale shark

Venus flytrap plants can count.

This sloth isn't smiling. That's just its face.

The cassowary's helmet glows under UV light, but only other cassowaries can see it

No otters, no forest: why sea otters are so important for the health of kelp forests

The red panda has a false thumb, and there's a good reason for that.

240 mph, no engine: meet the peregrine falcon

The mantis shrimp punches like a bullet. A 2025 study explains why it survives.

The panther chameleon's eyes are security cameras, and CT scans just solved a 2,000-year-old mystery

That horn is a tooth: the narwhal's tusk, inside and out

Monarch butterflies fly 2,500 miles to a forest they have never seen

This sea slug steals solar panels

The Komodo dragon has iron-tipped teeth, and five things you don't know about Earth's largest lizard

The only parrot that can't fly: the kākāpō, back from 18 birds to 325

The honey fungus under an Oregon forest may be 8,000 years old – and nobody knows for sure

It swims with its ears: meet the dumbo octopus

This dolphin steals from fish: meet Bubbles

The corpse flower smells like death – and heats itself up to spread the stink

This fish passed the mirror test – the cleaner wrasse recognizes its own face

The axolotl never grows up – and it can regrow parts of its brain

This is not a flower. It's a mushroom that grows in a week.

Scientists think this cuttlefish is colorblind. Watch its skin.