Animals

A Florida entomologist in the 1960s found that he could turn about half of a mosquito's body weight into fat if he handfed it...

While there is authoritive source for this that I could find, the phrase it is based on a Hindi translation for the word jungle.

While most fish rest by reducing their activity and metabolism, the way fish "sleep" is different from the way land mammals sleep. Most fish don’t...

The first piece of the puzzle to understanding why sloths are so slow is their low-calorie folivorous (mostly leaves) diet. Many other folivorous animals...

When a lake freezes, only the top layer actually freezes over. The area beneath the ice is where fish survive. This is due to something called...