The post The Sea Cucumber's Bizarre Defense — Exploding Its Own Guts appeared first on A-Z Animals. Sea cucumbers have few predators. The ones they do have are often avoided by camouflage, blending ...

The Hawaiian island of Kauai may not have any spewing lava, but hikers along the magnificent Napali coast have brought their own volcanic action recently, violently hollowing their innards amid the ...

Ah, man, I feel for those hikers. The summer that I worked at Philmont Scout Ranch as a ranger we had an outbreak of "Urraca plague", which was almost certainly norovirus. I was working with a scout ...