Really Weird Real World

Read about fruit fly larvae getting drunk to kill parasites, bees mixing antimicrobial resin into wax and apes making pills and heat rubs!

Read about the haunted rectory home to a series of con-artists, the Cottingley Fairies, "Ghostwatch" and the boozy origin of England's crop

Read about traps designed to funnel and capture entire herds, a medieval arrow-removal tool designed to save a prince and the stone spheres

Read about the colony homes of the sociable weaver, the sinister devil's garden, the murderous lairs of purseweb spiders and a bird that use

Read about animal cultures including orca fashionistas, cockatoos teaching each other how to open bins and the crows that pass grudges to th

Read about how fish feces can capture carbon, how fungi can break down plastics, why llamas make better guard dogs and the marvelous false b

Explore the weird world of fungi with a mushroom that bursts from other mushrooms, fungi that glow in the dark, a sheep-sized puffball and m

Read about the crustacean that can turn invisible, the polarized light signals of mantis shrimp and a snail that pretends it's being eaten!

Read about a fossilized crab brain, creatures slain and preserved during their last fight or meal and perfectly preserved remains in amber o

Read about a true sunken treasure ship, a vertical wreck, a hulk filled with radioactive waste and the closest thing we have to a ghost ship

Read about the rediscovery of ancient cities along the Silk Road, the truly ancient Göbekli Tepe and how TNT helped reveal the city of Troy!

Discover Kanaloa, Akkorokamui, Na Kika and Te Wheke-a-Muturangi, along with Roman tales of adventurous octopuses and (of course) the deadly

Read about the ear-splitting clicks and defensive defecation of the sperm whale, how they got their name and the attack that inspired Moby-D

Read about lemurs with a millipede fixation, dolphins with drug habits, how big cats are affected by catnip and the drinking habits of monke

Read about rats with rhythm, chimpanzee scouting, gossiping tamarin monkeys, rattlesnake friends and how some animals bury their dead!

Read about the earliest eyes, a jellyfish with 24 peepers, worms with eye covered tentacles and why octopus senses outclass those of a human