Category: Animals

The carcasses support entire communities of living things found nowhere else on Earth Last October, a team of marine explorers sent Hercules — a remote-controlled vehicle — to the bottom of the ocean. Its mission: to visit an octopus neighborhood. It was off the coast …

Keeping queens stress-free ups her hive’s birth rate, ensuring needed pollinators When honeybee hives die, the most common cause is something called queen bee failure. That’s when queens produce too few babies to keep the hive going. Finding out why this has happened is not …