Your Inner Fish Swims onto the Small Screen
Paleontologist Neil Shubin's 2008 book Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body comes to PBS in a three-part series airing April 9, 16th and 23rd. Steve Mirsky reports
Bacteria Turn Plants and Insects into Zombies
A parasitic phytoplasma deploys proteins to manipulate the plants it infects as well as the insects that spread the microbe
First-Ever Video of Critically Endangered Myanmar Snub-Nosed Monkeys
Here’s something you don’t see every day: video footage of the critically endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri), a species that was only discovered in 2010.
Out of the Deep Freeze: Captain America, The Winter Soldier and the Wood Frog
"Put him back on ice..." -- Evil Hydra scientist Arnim Zola speaking about Bucky Barnes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier There's a great convergence of activities occurring right now.
Humpback Heat Runs: How to Photograph the Biggest Courtship Battle on Earth
There's something about humpback whales that makes them seem so peaceful. Just elegant, wonderful creatures that wouldn't hurt a soul, unless that soul happens to be contained by a small fish or a delicious crustacean.
Are We Any Closer to Knowing How Many Species There Are on Earth?
Are there half a million? 100 Million? After decades of research, there is no consensus
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Pointless Universe–Solved?
The Sherlock Holmes era of my life has, sadly, ended. I just completed The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Kindle edition, four novels and 56 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Of After Man, The New Dinosaurs and Greenworld: an interview with Dougal Dixon
Some considerable years ago - February 2007, actually - I made the decision to write a short Tet Zoo article on speculative zoology. It was on the biology of Godzilla, and I published it with trepidation, my concern being that people would balk at the fact that I was covering an imaginary creature, not a [...]
Hummingbird Evolution Is Booming
The successful, 22 million-year-old group could double in its number of species before leveling off
The Missing Link that Wasn’t
April Fools’ Day is not unique to Western cultures. People all over the world and all throughout history have celebrated the coming of Spring with festivals of deception and lightheartedness.
Seductive Yeast Cells are Just the Right Size
Yeast cells make savvy mating choices, choosing partners that are the right size for the environment
The Age of Maximum Cassowary
Yet again, the world is cockahoop and head-over-heads in awe over another thrilling, dumbfounding, truly novel zoological discovery. No, I'm not talking about the discovery of suspension-feeding anomalocarids, ancient echolocating odontocete cetaceans, or even of new tapirs (did I mention the new tapir?), but of a stupendous new living bird, discovered clinging to existence in [...]