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Stars the Size of Cities, Crypt Creatures and Hungry Baby Beetles

Stars the size of cities colliding, deep sea creatures and hungry baby beetles top our list of cool pics in science. Check these out!

City-Size Stars Collide

When two city-size neutron stars collide, new research shows that the resulting shockwave emits radio signals that can help astronomers to verify elusive gravity waves.

Creatures of the Crypt

In a gallery published this week, LiveScience took a look at some of the most mysterious and just cool-looking creatures of the deep sea. Here, a terrifying toothy anglerfish, a species that became a common occurrence in little kids' nightmares ever since it chased Nemo and Dory in Pixar's "Finding Nemo."
Baby Beetles Devour Froggy Predators

When frogs and toads see Epomis beetle larvae waggling their antennae and jiggling their jaws, they must think, "Aha! Easy meal."

Animal Sex: Katydid Style

Add caNew research suggests that in bushcricket species, also called katydids, in which the males offer particularly large food gifts to a prospective mate, the females are willing to do the chasing. Shown here, a recently mated Poecilimon veluchianus minor, a species of bushcricket, carrying a spermatophore, which contains a food gift and a sperm and ejaculate containing ampulla to fertilize the female.