A rare yam species, Dioscorea melanophyma, spreads its clones by fooling birds with fake berries, helping it survive without seeds.

They therefore trapped small mammals—mostly mice, voles, squirrels and shrews—at 40 sites in the wildernesses of eastern ...

An ant, no longer in control of its body, crawls away from its colony, hangs perilously on a leaf, and waits to die as a fungus consumes its body, emerges from its head, and releases spores into the ...