Life
- Animals
Bringing fish back up to size
Changing the way we fish may help rescue a population's shrinking fish.
- Animals
Fish needs see-through head
Barreleye peers out at the world like a fighter pilot does through a windshield.
- Animals
Pondering the puzzling platypus
Scientists are studying the mixed-up looking mammal for clues to animal ancestry.
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- Animals
Sponges’ secret weapon
An aquatic animal provides a possible new kind of disease resistance.
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- Animals
When Darwin got sick of feathers
The man who started evolutionary biology had some bad moments over a bird.
- Plants
The man who rocked biology to its core
Two hundred years later, Charles Darwin's ideas still live on.
- Microbes
Hitting the redo button on evolution
Scientists are experimenting with bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way every time.
- Fossils
Invisible fossils of the first animals
Though the first animals on Earth didn’t leave behind rock fossils, scientists can still find these ancient creatures by observing their invisible molecular fossils.
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