Meet The Axolotl — The Salamander That Can Regrow Its Own Brain
The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival…
Meet The Shrimp That Punches With The Force Of A .22 Caliber — A Biologist Explains
Armed with a spring-loaded club and a devastating ‘double whammy’ strike, this shrimp is one of evolution’s strangest…
Meet The Worm That Hunts With A Slime Cannon — A Biologist Explains
This unassuming worm hunts with a self-assembling slime net. Here’s what scientists have uncovered about its biology, behavior…
Why Can’t Humans Regrow Limbs? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer…
Meet The Draco Lizard — The Flying Dragon That Uses Its Ribs As Wings
This Southeast Asian lizard stretches its ribs into wings to glide between branches. Here’s how evolution bent anatomy…
This 25 Million Year Old Platypus Had Teeth Built to Crack Open Armored Prey
Artistic reconstruction of Obdurodon in its natural environment. Credit: Gen Conway/Flinders University Paleontology Lab The platypus is already…
Chronic sunlight exposure disrupts body clocks in skin
Years of chronic exposure of human skin to sunlight strongly disrupts its body‑clock rhythm, according to a pioneering…
Giant Daisies Rewrite the Rules of Evolution
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was a British naturalist whose work transformed biology by providing a unifying explanation for the…
This Tiny Creature Survived a World of Dinosaurs and Changed What Came Next
An illustration of Cimolodon desosai on the tree with a fruit in its mouth. It was about the…
Identifying the ages when Alzheimer’s biomarkers sharply change
New research pinpoints the ages when Alzheimer’s-related brain changes accelerate, offering critical clues to when screening may be…
When Dawkins met Claude – UnHerd
The Turing Test is shorthand for a 1950 thought experiment that the great mathematician, logician, computer-pioneer, and cryptographer…
Scorpions Are Literally Metal, Study Reveals
One of the more fascinating and fearsome creatures in the world, the scorpion, is even cooler than you…