Rove beetles are insects within the family Staphylinidae which includes around 63,000 species and thousands of genera. One of these genera in particular, Charoxus, appears to take advantage of the very tight mutualistic relationship between fig trees and their pollinating wasps. Fig trees, those in the genus Ficus, are pollinated by wasps in the family…

If you’re a fish in the ocean, you need to watch out for the tail end of this top predator rather than their razor sharp teeth!

Did you think fire manipulation was unique to humans? Not so! Read about Australian firehawks with apocryphal arsonist aptitudes…

Don’t expect theoretical physics from this Einstein impersonator, the hamadryas baboon

If you thought the African clawed frog was ordinary, think again: this is one peculiar frog!

When one imagines amphibians (animals that live between land and water), damp, dim scenes of swamps and rainforest floors come to mind. These creatures, that can breathe through their skin and begin life swimming in form of fish-like tadpoles, must constantly have access to water to live. Given this, it’s hard to envision a frog…

Coral reefs are the largest geological structures on earth built by living organisms…

…these parasitic flatworms exhibit an extreme form of cooperative division of labor via non-reproductive warriors and the reproductive baby-makers…