Skeptophilia

One of the most mesmerizing sights in nature is the collective motion of large groups of animals. I remember watching films by Jacques Coust...

I know Life Follows Art, and all, but somehow I didn't expect the Art to be a sketch from Monty Python . If you're a Python fan, you...

You wouldn't think that fish living three miles deep in the ocean, far beneath the level that sunlight can penetrate, would worry much a...

One of the most frustrating arguments -- if I can dignify them by that name -- from creationists is that there are "no transitional fos...

One misperception about the world that has proven to be awfully persistent is that there's some kind of qualitative difference between h...

The ability to swim didn't evolve until amazingly late, especially considering that for the first two billion years, life on Earth was p...

One of the most relied-upon tests of animal intelligence is the mirror test .  The idea is to see if an animal realizes that its reflection ...

Today's topic comes from Cool News in Paleontology. I was alerted to this story because I was perusing science research sites and saw ...

I'm going to issue another plea to please please puhleeeezz  check your sources before posting stuff. This goes double for the viral m...