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A honeybee colony can contain tens of thousands of individuals, yet only one, the queen, typically reproduces. The rest spend their entire lives work

A stick insect resting motionless on a branch is nearly invisible even to a trained eye, and a harmless scarlet kingsnake shares almost the exact sam

A bat flying through pitch darkness can catch a moth mid-flight, and a dolphin swimming through murky water can distinguish a fish from a rock withou

An Arctic tern hatched this summer will, within a few months, fly roughly 40,000 miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic and eventually back again, wi

A caterpillar has no wings, chews leaves with mandibles built for grinding, and moves on stubby prolegs. The butterfly it becomes has wings, sips nec

When most people picture "animals," they picture vertebrates: dogs, birds, fish, and, of course, humans. But vertebrates are actually a small minorit