Whyyzit

Why do male anglerfish fuse permanently to females? It's one of the strangest mating strategies in the animal kingdom, called sexual parasitism.

Why do bees do the waggle dance? It's how a honeybee tells the rest of the hive exactly where to find food. When a forager finds a good flower patch, she returns and dances in a figure-eight, waggling her body through the middle — and that little waggle run is a coded map.

Ants don't bury their dead out of grief, they do it for a reason far more sinister. In this short, we break down the cold, calculated science behind ant funeral behavior, the death chemical that triggers it, and what happens when scientists paint living ants with the scent of death. Spoiler: the colony dragged them to the graveyard alive.

Ants bury their dead as a colony survival mechanism. Dead ants release a chemical called oleic acid as they decompose, which acts as a biological alarm signal triggering worker ants to remove the body from the nest immediately. This behavior protects the living colony from disease, fungi, and parasites that a rotting body would spread.

Some caterpillars don't run from predators, they bleed on them. It's called reflex bleeding, and for burnet moth caterpillars, those droplets release hydrogen cyanide. An ant tastes it once and never comes back.

Why do opossums play dead? And how do they know when to stop? 🐾They don't decide to play dead. Their nervous system decides for them. And they can't snap out of it even if they want to.

Why do spiders not get stuck in their own web they create? They're smarter than you think

Why do dolphins sleep with one eye open? We humans can't do it, so why can they?

Where is everybody? That question was asked by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi over lunch in 1950. In this video, we break down the Fermi Paradox, the most important unanswered question in human history, and the four solutions that will genuinely change how you see the universe.

why do we have earwax? Science shows earwax is self-cleaning, bacteria-fighting mechanism that plays a much bigger role in our body than you think

Why don't we see purple in rainbows? Our brains create the color purple! The science that you weren't taught in school.