Oysters that eat the microplastics littering the world's oceans produce fewer and less-healthy offspring. What isn't clear is whether the microplastics that accumulate in oysters could be harmful to the humans that eat them.
Oysters that eat the microplastics littering the world's oceans produce fewer and less-healthy offspring. What isn't clear is whether the microplastics that accumulate in oysters could be harmful to the humans that eat them.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
You may have heard of a liger—the lion-tiger hybrid is, after all, Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal—but now a Russian zoo has released photos of a so-called "liliger," the offspring a liger mother and a lion father.
You may have heard of a liger—the lion-tiger hybrid is, after all, Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal—but now a Russian zoo has released photos of a so-called "liliger," the offspring a liger mother and a lion father.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony. She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.