Playing dead, also known as thanatosis or tonic immobility, is a fascinating survival tactic used by various animals in the wild. This behavior is a unique form of deception, where animals feign death ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

I f you tried to keep track of every new restaurant and bar in New York, your head might spin. So just read this list instead ...

The red velvet ant is an insect species native to the eastern United States, ranging from Connecticut in the northeast to Florida in the South. Although they are commonly called ants, these red ...

Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

Adult female Brazilian velvet ant (Traumatomutilla bifurca) shows off her superblack patches. ... [+] (Credit: copyright: Nicole Desnoyers. Image appears here with kind permission.) An ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Despite its name, the Velvet Ant is actually a wingless wasp. Found in the US, its sting is extremely painful and has earned it the nickname “Cow Killer.” Their sting is potent but not fatal.

In the animal kingdom, scarlet velvet ants are known to deliver some of the most excruciatingly painful stings. These insects live on the ground, but they are not actually ants at all. Instead ...

This is my boy’s all-time favourite cake. With its two layers of bold, red, cocoa-flavoured sponge and hints of almond and vanilla, sandwiched and covered with rich vanilla cream-cheese frosting ...

Blue Velvet, often widely regarded as one of David Lynch's finest works, hit US theatres on September 19, 1986. Despite its initial poor box office performance and mixed critical reception due to ...

One of Hollywood’s worst weeks in years just got worse. David Lynch, the four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, The Elephant Man and ...