Finally moved from my apartment in Tennessee to my temporary place in Colorado, with a quick stop in Michigan. Lots of driving, but I’ve successfully graduated!
Great explainer for the differences between similar animals.
Animal skulls are super diverse and very beautiful.
Biology is biased toward penises.
More from TwilightBeasts: Mr. Darwin’s lost sloth, The one with the sabretooth, The mouse-goat crocodile chimera, and Galloping across the steppes.
The real story of the jackalope.
‘How cougars survived the Ice Age‘.
Whales v. dinosaurs: which ones were bigger?
Speaking of whales, dead ones are vital to science and for nature.
This should be obvious, but don’t pet strangers’ dogs.
Kiwis and elephant birds are closely related.
Another way to survive a mass extinction: get body armor and become marine.
Sorry Jurassic Park: that T. rex could probably see you really well.
We get too hyped about dinosaurs being the biggest.
Turtles are confusing: new evidence shows that they’re more similar to birds and crocodilians than to snakes and lizards.
The more snakes, the better.
However, Titanoboa was terrifying.
It might be time to rethink what it means to use tools: can fish use tools?
‘24 species of sharks that have killed fewer people than Jack Bauer on 24‘.
‘Why octopus arms don’t get tangled‘.
The case of the sleeping snail.
Insect pollinators are in trouble.
Have you ever seen an anemone eat a bird?
Thousands of years ago, a girl died in a cave and now she is helping science.
Whatever happened to Francis Crick?
You can thank dead horses for your morning shower.
What if we told kids the truth about sex?
Why humans recognize faces and constellations.
The science behind the 1 inch punch.
Your smartphone is covered with bacteria.
The discovery of element 117 has been confirmed!
See the Earth from space, live!
This Alaskan aurora is gorgeous.
Time-lapse of a supercell forming is scary, but cool.
California fires are unique and that’s bad.
May the Fourth was chock-full of Star Wars science. Here are 3: forcefields, Han Solo and the Kessel Run, and Yoda’s advice was pretty terrible.
The important ring of Canadian engineers.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Should your robot car be able to sacrifice your life?
‘The Library of Congress wants to destroy your old cds (for science)‘.
Stop using products with microbeads.
The only water where the Coast Guard won’t save you.
Before Pantone: the original color book.
That’s okay, everyone draws eyes wrong.
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