Chinese researchers recently reported on venomous toxins of the giant jellyfish. They revealed that this aquatic creature mixes a “cocktail” of toxins to produce stinging agony and sometimes death unto its victims.^1,2

Pangolins just received an odd form of political protection.¹

Found in southeast Asia and Africa, these creatures look like a cross between a Texas armadillo and an aardvark anteater.² (When Spanish conquistadores encountered armadillos in Texas, they called them “pigs wearing armor” but soon learned to eat them.)

An ancient city found deep in a Central American rainforest yields a surprising discovery.

Scientists from China, Sweden, and Australia have discovered what they claim is the oldest known parasite, publishing their results in Nature Communications.¹ The evidence comes from small tube-shaped objects attached to the shells of the host brachiopods.² Scientists speculate that these tubes contained some sort of parasitic worm.

In 2017, a large dinosaur was discovered washed out to sea,¹ similar to the dinosaur bone found 70 miles off Norway’s coast.² Only this one was partially intact, nearly perfectly preserved, and still contained its last meal fossilized inside its gut.¹ Recently, a group led by paleontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology examined the stomach con