Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...

Alan Ritchson performs a full underwater take in War Machine, holding his breath while dragging free weights across the ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows into the soil and slips into diapause, an insect state of suspended ...

From loudest burps to longest breath holds, GWR reveals which records exist and which don't based on the most popular Google searches.

BUMBLEBEE queens have been hiding a remarkable superpower all this time. It turns out the buzzing insects can breathe ...

Queen bumble bees can survive fully submerged for a week, revealing how these pollinators endure spring floods and still start new colonies.

Learn how bumble bee queens can stay alive underwater for over a week by minimizing their metabolism and saving energy.

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

For hundreds of years, a group of remarkable women has lived and worked along the rocky coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. These women are known as the Haenyeo, which means “sea women.” They are ...

The moment you realize that staying in your lucrative career one more day feels like agreeing to hold your breath underwater indefinitely is the moment everything changes—not because you've suddenly ...

After two years of staring at my silent phone in retirement, desperately waiting for proof I still mattered, I discovered that the devastating loneliness of being forgotten was actually freedom in ...

There are lakes, and then there’s Lake Phelps at Pettigrew State Park in Creswell, North Carolina, which is in a category all its own. This isn’t one of those murky bodies of water where you can’t see ...