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The plant Hydnora africana is a parasite that smells foul...
A new technology could make diseases like Zika a thing of the past. But should we use it?
Hate going to the dentist? Keep the millions of microbes in your mouth happy.
You can make glow-in-the-dark slime with common household items—and learn some really cool
Bird poop could help clouds form, keeping our planet a little bit cooler. Gross!
Santa's reindeer just got a whole lot more interesting.
Meet the most versatile butts in the animal kingdom.
If you're attacked you could run away, fight back...or you could barf. Gross!
Baby koalas eat their mom's poop... and that's just the beginning.
Vultures have a number of traits that allow them to eat the grossest stuff.
Germs can travel way farther than you might think.
Doctors have been slicing into eyeballs for over 2500 years.
Meet your necrobiome: The microbes that feast on your body after death.
The California brown sea hare has gigantic neurons. It also has a very strange way of repr
osemite National Park just shut down two campgrounds due to the plague.
Fossilized poop, called coprolites, can reveal surprising secrets about the past.
Venom from the Brazilian wandering spider can give men a long-lasting, painful erection.
Herpes is probably hiding in your nerve cells right now.
Scientists think hagfish slime could be the next eco-friendly, high-performance material.
Like popping pimples? Then you'll love how the Surinam toad gives birth.
Right now, there are tiny mites eating, laying eggs, dying, and leaking feces on your face
What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it.
Everyone loves bacon. Even parasitic botflies living under your skin.
Well-endowed barnacles can change the size and shape of their penises.
Cows burps release a ton of methane into the atmosphere.
Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.
Sand tiger shark fetuses eat their siblings in the womb.
Fecal transplants-putting one person's poop into another person's gut-are surprisingly eff
Cocaine is being mixed with a dangerous drug called levamisole.
What should you do with stinky old fish skins? How about powering your cellphone?
Avoiding your tetanus shot? Here’s why that might be a bad idea.
We can use urine to make medicines, power cell phones, and create “pee-cycled” water.
Extras
Ever get an uncontrollable urge to poop in the middle of a long run? You're not alone.
This parasite makes male crabs think that they’re pregnant females.