It’s hard to imagine life forms of any kind surviving the dark, extreme cold, and immense pressure (nearly 1000x that on land) 8,000 meters below the surface of...
Read MoreWelcome to Friday Fiction Facts: sciency things that fiction writers need to know. Once upon a time there was a beautiful unicorn. It was a stunning creature with long...
Read MoreDo you love this? I love this! And look, there’s more! What is this gorgeous stripy creature you ask? It’s the wonderpus octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus), a...
Read MoreWe tend to think of trees as individual entities, each one with its leafy or needled top and its own underground collection of roots. We now understand that the trees...
Read MoreDo the math: There are 48 species of seahorse…that we know of. They inhabit shallow coastal waters along every continent except Antarctica –hundreds of ...
Read MoreThese are Weedy Seadragons. They don’t even look real, do they? These two could teach Strictly Come Dancing a thing or two. Named for their uncanny...
Read MoreIf you had the opportunity, what would you name a new species …or nebula or gene? I’ve often thought about that and it always seemed a job of great...
Read MoreWhoa! Check out this tree! Credit: Hollyladd Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Credit: churchm0us Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Credit: Paul Gillen Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Credit:...
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