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Liz Langley

Common wasps, such as this female, also use their stingers to deposit eggs.

Venom sacs and spring-loaded caps: Best beware nature's most sophisticated stingers

20 March 2023. By Liz Langley

What does cancer smell like? These animals can sniff it out

28 February 2023. By Liz Langley

Cannibalism in animals is more common than you think

5 January 2023. By Liz Langley

Why bugs, tarantulas, and other creatures shed their skin

3 May 2022. By Liz Langley

New Frog Species Named After Fabled Female Warriors

20 April 2022. By Liz Langley

Meet Bob, the Flamingo Ambassador of Curaçao

19 April 2022. By Liz Langley

Crows love cheeseburgers. And now they're getting high cholesterol

19 April 2022. By Liz Langley

Snakes in the Shower? See Exotic Pets in Conventional Homes

19 April 2022. By Liz Langley

Animal blood comes in a rainbow of colours—here’s why

28 February 2022. By Liz Langley

These primitive, deep-sea fish live to 100, surprising scientists

18 June 2021. By Liz Langley

These birds nap while they fly—and other surprising ways that animals sleep

4 May 2021. By Liz Langley

Echolocation is nature’s built-in sonar. Here’s how it works.

4 February 2021. By Liz Langley

Environment and Conservation

We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s

25 January 2021. By Liz Langley

Ogre-faced spiders have great hearing—without ears

2 November 2020. By Liz Langley

Dolphins learn to use tools from peers, just like great apes

3 July 2020. By Liz Langley

How pheromones help bee queens rule and lemurs 'flirt'

20 May 2020. By Liz Langley

Whale sharks may live up to a century, Cold War bomb dating reveals

6 April 2020. By Liz Langley

Rats avoid harming other rats. The finding may help us understand sociopaths.

6 March 2020. By Liz Langley

Stray dogs have the natural ability to understand human gestures

19 January 2020. By Liz Langley

The deeper this purple octopus lives, the bumpier its skin

9 October 2019. By Liz Langley