Candiru crave blood, but the strange fish may use their hosts in more ways than previously known.
Jake Buehler
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Jake Buehler is a science writer living on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with an adoration for the Tree of Life’s weird, wild, and unsung.
In Greek mythology, the hydra is a creature with many heads. In Norse mythology, Odin rides Sleipnir—a horse with…
As the sun sets over what will become northern China in 160 million years, something small dives between the trunks…
Electric eels were already exceptionally weird fish. These eels—actually three different species of giant, South…
Being extremely tall is sort of a giraffe’s whole thing. So when scientists recently spotted two wild giraffes with…
Some birds are gifted with shockingly long lives. In captivity, crows can live into their 50s. Certain parrot…
As the sun descends behind sand dunes and wind-carved escarpments, central Qatar’s Al Rayyan region gets a reprieve…
Right now, as summer broils the northern hemisphere, countless animals are trying to dump heat. Dogs are panting.…
You might be able to quickly recognize a friend from afar based on their body language or their personal fashion…
She was a common black hawk. He was a red-shouldered hawk. They weren’t in the same genus, let alone the same…
White-bellied sea eagles are majestic, keen-eyed predators that soar effortlessly above coastal forests and marshes.…
Over the last 150 years, the males of certain invasive mongooses have undergone some serious tweaks to their sexual…
High in the Sierra Nevada, a spotted owl soundlessly touches down in a massive red fir. As its ears scan the forest…
Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But…
Scientists have discovered a spider living in South Africa that’s truly a sight to behold. The arachnids feature a…
Manta rays and whale sharks are among the largest filter-feeding fishes on the planet. To power their bulk, they…
Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their…
Some of the most serendipitous discoveries about nature can be prompted by just about anything, like finding the…
Rapture Reef was an undersea Eden, hundreds of miles out in a remote, ocean wilderness. It was a pristine, coral…
Fire is central in the world of black-backed woodpeckers, to the point that the birds pick cavities in recently…