Category: Creepy Animals
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Would Your Dog Eat You if You Died? Get the Facts.
You might not look at your beloved Bella or Buddy the same way after reading this.
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Watch What Happens When Scavengers Find a Several-Ton Carcass
Huge animals play outsized roles in their ecosystems—even in death.
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Why You Shouldn’t Eat a Slug (In Case You Need Reasons)
Hint: A brain-infesting worm carried by gastropods is spreading around the world.
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Homeless Cats Recruited to Fight Rising Tide of Rats
There’s a new sheriff in Washington D.C. alleys: adopted feral cats. But as rodent-killing machines, New York’s terriers are even better.
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A Horrifying List of Creatures That Can Crawl Into Your Body
From roaches in noses to leeches in nether regions, here are the animals most likely to get under your skin.
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Bizarre-Looking Beetle Has an Even Weirder Sex Life
The trilobite beetle has kept scientists baffled for nearly 200 years.
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Butterflies Behaving Badly: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Butterflies have had us fooled for centuries.
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Flies Could Falsely Place Someone at a Crime Scene
This might be the grossest science experiment I’ve ever written about.
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Amazing Video Reveals Why Roaches Are So Hard to Squish
Have you ever stomped a roach, just to have it skitter away unscathed?