Don't worry, rice doesn't make birds explode. Rice won't make birds explode, but that doesn't mean you should throw it. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning the birds in our backyards will soon make a lot more noise than before. I, for one, am excited.

But this leaf-masquerading katydid hasn't been changed for good. An international team of scientists spotted the color-changing insect on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a startling discovery: a hot pink leaf-masquerading katydid (), striking a pose in the glow of a research station light. Leaf-masquerading katydids are camouflage insects that usually resemble green leaves to ward off predators.

Roughly 500 cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued in New England this winter. Helvetica is a loggerhead sea turtle. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. They're also a few of the new names bestowed upon sea turtles that a team from the New England Aquarium's turtle hospital rehabilitated this year. This winter, almost 500 live turtles washed up along the shores of Cape Cod Bay, with many suffering from hypothermia following the annual cold stunning season .

Volunteers listened to animal mating calls and played a computer game--for science. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's important to remember that we humans are simply animals . A very advanced species, but members of the animal kingdom nonetheless. We all need water, food, and shelter to survive, but we also share another similarity.

Trendy designer dogs often have the same issues as pure breeds. The'doodle' industry earns over $1 billion a year. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Designer crossbreed dogs are increasingly popular pets . Much of the rising interest is tied to claims that these mixed pooches possess more desirable aspects than many purebreeds or mutts.

Gooey birch tar helped our distant cousins make weapons and possibly treat wounds. The bark of birch trees has been used to produce tar for more than 150,000 years. The center photo shows birch bark tar condensed onto a rock that borders a hearth. When scraped off the rocks, the viscous tar can be used as both an adhesive and antibiotic. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.

This adorable sea lion has to eat five to eight percent of its body weight every day to stay healthy and hydrated. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land for a watery habitat no longer exist, we still have plenty of stunning examples: Think dolphins, whales, manatees, porpoises. There's even a whole suborder of carnivores called the pinnipeds, which includes seals, sea lions, and walruses who move between land and water.

A very loud bang accompanied the disintegrating space rock. Although loud, little of the meteor is expected to have survived the atmospheric entry. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Residents across northeastern Ohio received a rude--or at least extremely unexpected--wake-up call this morning. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the loud boom experienced across the region around 9 a.m. EDT on March 17 was most likely the result of a meteor disintegrating as it sped through Earth's atmosphere.

The folds in the tilted rock layers and differences in their erosion rate gives the limestone the step-like appearance we see today. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While Ireland's natural landscape is known for every shade of green imaginable, a different color dominates one part of Ireland. Along the Burren Region on the country's western coast, gray limestone pavement covers the rocky and treeless landscape. NASA's Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured a view of Burren, showing the rocky landscape and an 860-foot-tall limestone hill called Moneen Mountain.

The ocean’s bad boys don’t just cruise alone—they have preferred swimming partners.