Latest articles by Mindy Weisberger
Strange love: 13 animals with truly weird courtship rituals
For Valentine's Day, Live Science gathers together some of the more extravagant and outlandish courtship rituals in the animal kingdom.
Noodle-necked swimming dinosaur may have been a diving predator like a penguin
Scientists recently discovered the first non-avian theropod dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to that of penguins, auks and other modern diving birds.
Tiny 'bramble snout' fossils found near Wales were 'weird wonders' that predated the dinosaurs
Scientists recently unearthed fossils of strange ocean creatures that lived about 460 million years ago and were unlike any animal alive today.
Octopuses fling shells and sand at each other, and scientists caught their battles on video
Watch debris from the sea bottom fly, as octopuses hurl sand and other projectiles at their neighbors in an Australian bay.
19th-century whaling shipwreck identified in the Gulf of Mexico
Scientists have discovered the long-lost shipwreck of a whaling vessel that sank during a storm in 1836.
Nazi bombs destroyed a priceless 'sea monster' fossil. Scientists just found its long-lost plaster copies.
More than 70 years ago, during a WWII air raid in the U.K., German bombs destroyed a rare fossil of an ichthyosaur. Scientists just found long-lost plaster casts of the priceless skeleton.
Spy Satellite Images Uncover Staggering Mount Everest Ice Loss
Declassified spy-satellite photos show that the glaciers near Mount Everest are shrinking more than expected.
Bizarre aye-ayes use spooky, bony finger for nose picking
A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs.
King Tut's father revealed in stunning facial reconstruction
An astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.
Mosquito larvae launch their heads like tiny harpoons to nab prey, video reveals
Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of mosquito larvae flinging their heads at prey in deadly hunting strikes.
8 Reasons Why We Love Tardigrades
Whether you know them as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are microscopic bundles of awesomeness.
30-Year Deep Freeze Just Puts Tardigrade in the Mood
Two tardigrades and one egg that spent the past three decades cooling their jets in a researchers' freezer were recently resuscitated.
Key to Tardigrades' 'Superpowers' Identified in Their DNA
A tardigrade's unique genetic makeup fuels the creature's remarkable resuscitation superpowers.
If We Live in a Multiverse, Where Are These Worlds Hiding?
What is the scientific basis for the popular science-fiction convention of multiple universes?
Everybody Freeze! The Science of the Polar Bear Club
On New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ancient and bizarre 'innovation crab' from China had eyes on stalks, spike-studded arms and a tail full of 'blades'
A bizarre fossil from China's Chengjiang Lagerstätte site hints at early diversity in a group of Cambrian marine arthropods called radiodonts.
Octopuses Are Surprisingly Social — and Confrontational, Scientists Find
A new study reveals that octopuses frequently communicate with each other in challenging displays that include posturing and changing color.
50 million tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years
The explosive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic event spewed so much moisture that it increased the global average of atmospheric water vapor by 5%.
Why dog breeds look so very different, but cats don't
Why don't pedigreed cats show the extremes in body size and shape that dog breeds do?
9 million told to evacuate after super typhoon Nanmadol slams southern Japan, heads toward Tokyo
Tens of thousands of people in Japan have already sought shelter from powerful storm Nanmadol, which could be the most destructive in decades.
You can't hide from your cat, so don't even try
Cats create "mental maps" using audio cues, scientists have discovered. This enables cats to spatially orient unseen companions, an ability that was previously unknown in felines.
Rare Florida snake found dead after choking on a giant centipede
The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America. And now there's one less, after a snake was found dead with a centipede stuck in its throat.
Does Catnip Really Make Cats 'High'?
Cats that have an extreme response to catnip may look like they're experiencing euphoria.
