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This Is How Trilobites Made Babies Before Birds and Bees

The robust, calcite-infused exoskeletons and fragmented shells of trilobites are found almost everywhere in fossil beds from the Cambrian Period to the Permian. But this treasure trove of trilobite fossils has revealed frustratingly little about how Paleozoic animals reproduced over 250 million years of life on ancient Earth. A recently reexamined fossil Burgess Shale It …

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80,000 Honey Bees Found in Shower Wall (Plus 100 Pounds of Honey)

A Florida couple recently said goodbye to some uninvited house guests: as many as 80,000 honeybee colonies occupying the shower walls. Colony size, St. It stunned even professional beekeeper Elisha Bixler, whom Stefanie and Dan Graham of St. “There was honey everywhere: the walls, the floor, my shoes, doorknobs,” Ms Bixler said in an interview …

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Bees Make This “Screaming” Sound When Attacked by Hornets

Bees scream with their bodies, not their mouths. When giant hornets approach and threaten their colony, Asian honeybees lift their bellies up and run with their wings quivering. The noise can sound eerily like a human scream. In an article published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open ScienceResearchers identify the Asian honey bee’s unique …

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