Big or small, most creatures end up on something else's dinner menu. But the velvet ant combines a ton of defenses into one very unappetizing package. 

Fairies do exist! Well, sort of...meet the fairyfly, the smallest insect on Earth that specializes in the magic of miniaturization!

Ants are practically everywhere, and some creatures have found it beneficial to blend in with this crowd rather than stick out.

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Contracting a virus is generally a bad thing, but among certain parasitic wasps, passing a virus to their offspring is actually key to their survival.

There is a group of animals with more species than any other group, but Earth has such an astonishing variety of life that figuring out which group dominates is tricky.

In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we find out that lots of what we thought we knew about the world around us isn’t quite right.

Lots of plants make nectar to attract pollinators, but some make special, extra nectar pots outside their flowers to feed their bodyguards.

Where there's life, there's other life looking for a free ride. Here are six of the world's oldest parasites.

From ripping your own appendages off to cockroach mind control, wasps go to great lengths to ensure the survival of their species.

It can be hard to distinguish bees from all the other insects out there that look like bees.

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