When you were a kid you might have had the trauma-thrill of thinking you caught a lizard and opening your hand to find nothing but its squirming tail. Some lizards and other animals can lose their ...

Imagine this: you accidentally lose an arm or a leg, and instead of rushing to the hospital, your body just grows it back. Sounds like something out of a superhero movie, right? But for many creatures ...

We usually think that losing a body part is a permanent thing. But in nature, some animals have a superpower we can only dream of: they can regrow lost parts of their bodies. From arms to tails, some ...

However absurd and horrifying it may sound, in the wild, some animals actually eat parts of their own bodies. Sometimes it’s a survival strategy to reclaim nutrients, sometimes it’s to fuel ...