Skeptophilia

The diversity you find among birds is really remarkable. There are differences in bill shape, from the weird angled beaks of flamingos, to t...

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

Mice are kind of ubiquitous, and it's easy to think of them as all being pretty much the same, but the family they comprise -- Muridae ...

Starfish are odd creatures in just about every respect. They belong to a phylum called Echinodermata , which is Greek for "spiny skin...

Australia has a reputation for being the home of wildlife that pretty much all wants to kill you. It has some of the world's most venomo...

In the episode of The X Files  called "Ice," some geophysicists working in northern Alaska bring up a 250,000 year old ice core fr...

I think if I had to choose one extinct species to bring back, it would be the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ).  Second place would be ...

Because I'm tired of doomscrolling on Twitter and getting more and more discouraged about what's going on in the United States right...

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 funniest scenes in the Monty Python movie Life of Brian  is when a man is condemned to be stoned for saying "Jehovah," ...