It watched you first, and it picked you on purpose. Here are eleven.
1. There Is No Such Bird as a Seagull
The word covers several dozen distinct species with…
17 Things About the Spider in the Bath, Beginning With the Fact That It Did Not Come Up the Plughole
It cannot climb out, which is the only reason it is still there. Here are seventeen.
1. It Did Not Come Up the Plughole
This is the belief everybody has…
A Turtle’s Shell Is Its Own Ribcage and Spine Fused Into a Box, Which Is Why It Cannot Ever Leave It
Almost every popular depiction of a turtle gets this wrong in the same way, treating the shell as a portable house. The reality is stranger, because building a box out…
One foot, one shell it cannot leave, and thousands of teeth. Here are fifteen.
1. It Moves by Sending a Wave Along One Foot
Bands of muscle contract in sequence…
There is an image that makes most people wince the first time they see it: a hammer driving nails into a horse's foot.
The reaction is reasonable, and it rests…
There is a question about animal communication that has been argued for a long time, and alarm calls are where the evidence is strongest.
The question is whether animal signals…