The animal kingdom is far stranger, smarter, and more surprising than most of us realize. From deep-ocean creatures with abilities that defy logic to familiar backyard animals hiding bizarre secrets, ...

Of all the many millions of species on the planet, only humans have sequenced genomes, invented smart phones and composed moonlight sonatas. To an evolutionary biologist like me, who studies the ...

Amid all the headlines and chaos, one of the few things that keeps us sane is looking at photos of adorable animals. They remind us that nature is truly incredible, and there’s beauty everywhere if we ...

Amid a year of tremendous loss due to wildfires, Los Angeles' thunderous applause at another World Series win and unrest over political decisions from the White House that affected Southern California ...

Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its face. Catania first saw a star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) ...

In Disney’s film version of Pinnochio, the boy-puppet rescues his creator Geppetto by lighting a fire inside Monstro the whale, who has swallowed them both. The fire causes the whale to sneeze, ...

Of all the many millions of species on the planet, only humans have sequenced genomes, invented smart phones and composed moonlight sonatas. To an evolutionary biologist like me, who studies the ...