About 500 million years ago, not a single creature had a skull. Over time, these bony plates evolved into the structural marvels that vertebrates—animals with spinal cords, aka you, me, and your pug, ...
The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...
Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped ...
A closer look at one of science fiction’s most detailed alien designs and the biology behind it.