Extreme Science: Chasing the Ghost Bat

From the pages of Scientific American comes the latest information and explorations into the bizarre realm of the natural world, including:

-Our oldest relatives and the discovery of missing links
-Strange predators, from flesh-eating chimps to the lethal Komodo dragon
-Strange plant life, such as the carnivorous Venus's flytrap and the Voodoo lily
-Extinct monsters, and giant, flightless, flesh-eating birds
-Mysterious denizens of the deep, such as the giant squid and the slime hag
-Insect oddities: fire ants, singing caterpillars, and Africanized bees