Strange Animals Scientists Studied

Horses that did math, parrots that asked what color they were, water bears in open space.

13 stories

• The Teenager Who Sent Two Spiders to Spin Webs in Space
• The Water Bears That Survived Naked in Open Space
• The Naked Mole-Rat: The Cold-Blooded Mammal That Lives Like an Ant and Won't Age on Schedule
• The Parrot That Asked What Color Am I
• The Horses That Battled an Army of Electric Eels
• The Jellyfish That Can Reverse Its Own Aging
• The Kingfisher That Redesigned the Bullet Train
• The Beetle That Explodes Inside a Predator's Stomach — and Walks Away
• The Blind Bats That Flew Perfectly in the Dark
• The Baby-Blue Blood of the Horseshoe Crab That Keeps Every Vaccine Safe
• The Cat Who Co-Authored a Physics Paper Because His Owner Used the Word 'We'
• Clever Hans: The Horse That Could 'Do Math'
• Laika: The Moscow Stray Who Orbited Earth, and the Truth Hidden for 45 Years

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