Jennifer Geer

Quick Take The Loa loa worm has a biological trick that perfectly times its own spread, and this trick depends entirely on a person's daily routine.

Quick Take Pliny the Elder had a very specific cure for earwigs in the ear 2,000 years ago, and it is stranger than you would expect.

Quick Take Unlike almost every other noisy insect, this moth makes its sound in a completely unexpected way.

Quick Take One of these species vanished from an entire island for over a century, and the habitat where it finally turned up was the last place experts would have expected.

It's a familiar scene. You hear your child cry out in the middle of the night, and you rush to […]

Quick Take One Florida beach holds the world record for shark bites yet has never recorded a single fatality.

Quick Take Hoatzin chicks pull off a daring escape from predators that no other modern bird attempts, and the whole feat hinges on a body part that vanishes before adulthood.

Quick Take Ice forming inside a living body should be a death sentence. Yet one tiny frog has turned that process into a survival superpower.

Quick Take The parasite doesn't just disguise the snail. It hijacks a hardwired survival instinct and flips it completely against the snail.

The unassuming eastern emerald elysia lives in shallow salt marshes tidal pools , estuaries, and other brackish coastal waters, ranging as far north