Biology

To the first Europeans to settle in Australia, it looked like a badger. But the creature—a godsend to shipwrecked sailors—turned out to be something very different.

A tiny, amazing, colourful arachnid ‘struts’ around like the bird after which it is named.

Water dwellers have intricate design features that can be mimicked to help build better protective gear.

There is more than one view among evolutionary researchers on how new biological structures arise.

The sea creature that makes so much of an impression, its effects can be seen from outer space.

Water striders are strides ahead of robotics engineers, and fleas have the jump on them, too

Adam and Eve blood types, haploid clone, O is a mutation of A, which is more common than B

What’s an ‘animal-only’ pigment doing in plants?

Humans mostly find rodents repulsive, but lots of creatures love this one.

The Cambrian explosion supports the creation account and not evolutionary conjecture.

These spiders are programmed to make larger duplicates of themselves and then animate them to scare and confuse predators.

The size variation in the catfish Order is extraordinary.

A new study shows that Hans Asperger actively assisted the Nazi eugenics policies.

Evolution cannot explain the appearance of the first bird, but the awe-inspiring hummingbird baffles that idea beyond all reason.

God’s amazing creation is full of never-ending surprises

Many people know that Strychnos plants contain strychnine, a deadly poison. The discovery of its flowers in amber is ‘deadly’ to evolution.