Jumping Bean was found chained in a dirty basement with no food or water and surrounded by her own poop Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...

Given enough time, jumping beans will always find their way out of the sun. Jumping beans, which are really seed pods with twitchy moth larvae inside, hop around in a way that — if they live long ...

Mexican jumping beans have been a curiosity for many an inquisitive child, and yes, they really do “jump,” thanks to the presence of tiny moth larvae inside the seed pods. According to a recent paper ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARLSBAD, Calif. — A U.S. Postal worker ...

I love Mexican jumping beans. They’re a bit cruel—capturing a growing larva and making it dance could be bad for your karma—but they’re so cool. What is not so cool is the freakish face on this ...

Just like the peanut is not really a nut and the pineapple is not an apple, not all "beans" are beans. Perhaps the most remarkable of all the beans-that-are-not-really-beans are Mexican jumping beans, ...

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) --A California bomb squad investigating a package making a ticking sound said the parcel turned out to contain Mexican jumping beans. Carlsbad police Lt. Greg Koran said ...