Jesslyn Shields

The differences go beyond the fact that one goes in a sippy cup and the other is a main ingredient in festive holiday punches.

The blobfish is actually pretty average looking in its normal habitat, but becomes a blob when it transitions from the pressure at depth to the water’s surface.

The largest eagle in the world has a claw the size of a grizzly bear’s, a leg the size of a human’s and a very disapproving gaze.

Machine learning, or artificial intelligence, might just save us from bacterial infections in the future.

Bees get a lot of credit for pollinating important food crops, but they get a lot of secret help from their nocturnal friends, the moths.

Spider monkeys, an endangered species, are the largest monkeys in the Americas and live in the forest canopy, where they swing through the trees with the greatest of ease.

Honey has been used as medicine for millennia and, in this century, the old remedies seem to be holding up to science.

The protection of these strange looking, ancient animals, and creatures like them, may be a key component in helping a planet in climate catastrophe.

Flemish giants, also known as “Flemmies,” make great pets, but the question is, how did they get so big?

Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London described 552 species in 2021, including a couple of dinosaurs.