Bears pop painkillers, ants perform ‘operations’, and mice can do CPR. See how animals and plants self-medicate, and how ...

Researchers have noted that parrot consumption of clay increases during certain seasons when they eat more toxic fruits, indicating they adaptively self-regulate their medicine intake based on dietary ...

Researchers have noted that parrot consumption of clay increases during certain seasons when they eat more toxic fruits, indicating they adaptively self-regulate their medicine intake based on dietary ...

The dietary choices of caterpillars have other surprising consequences. For instance, Singer found that the woolly bear caterpillar eats toxic plants to fight off attack by parasitic flies. “I learned ...

NORFOLK, Va. — For as long as humans have been able to experience weather, we have been trying to predict it. While modern science helps us understand the complex interactions in our atmosphere ...

That brings us to the “woolly bear” or “woolly worm” caterpillar. They are often found in the fall, and folklore explains that the color, length, or thickness of the coat will indicate the ...

As the chill of winter approaches, many look to an unlikely source for clues about the season ahead—the woolly bear caterpillar. READ MORE: <a href="https://www ...

Frozen precipitation picks up air pollutants as it falls — in particular, toxic compounds from ... has long said that examining a fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar can tell you how severe a winter ...

But one piece of folklore stands out from all the rest, and that’s the folklore around the wooly bear caterpillar. Here’s how it supposedly works. If you find one of these in your garden ...

Before atmospheric computer models, people turned to nature for long range weather forecasts, especially, the wooly bear caterpillar! ‘My heart is full today’: Harris concedes loss to Trump as ...

Do woolly bear caterpillars forecast winter weather? Woolly bears (or woolly worms in the South) have a reputation for forecasting the coming winter weather, according to the Farmer's Almanac.