• Photo: Two bees "snuggling"

    Love Bugs

    A Closer Look Into the Love Lives of Insects

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Bug Features

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    Bees Help Make Raspberries

    Learn about the actions of all these bees who make the delicious raspberries happen in Kenya.

  • Photo: Tarantula feeding on a spider

    Eerie Animals

    From black cats to vampire bats, certain animals just give humans the willies. Cozy up to some creepy critters in this gallery.

  • Photo: Monarch butterflies

    Feature: Mexico Butterflies

    Experience the monarch butterfly migration in Central Mexico's volcanic highlands.

  • Photo: Close-up of a mosquito

    Deadly Instinct

    The savagery of daily life in the animal kingdom is captured up close by National Geographic photographers in Deadly Instinct, which tells the story of the struggle between predator and prey with vivid shots, narrative, and candid interviews with wildlife photographers.

  • Photo: blue morpho germ egg

    Insect Eggs Photo Gallery

    Engineered for survival, insect eggs hang on and hatch wherever their parents deposit them.

Animal News

  • A vending machine filled with candy and snacks.

    Can Sugar Make You Stupid?

    Bingeing on fructose stunted memory and learning in rats, prompting "high concern" over unhealthy humans.

  • A fossilized ink sac.

    Fossil Ink Sacs Yield Pigment

    Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

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