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Most insects live fast. A mayfly is famous for having a day. Periodical cicadas run the opposite strategy to an extreme that has no real parallel: nearly two decades…
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…
Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself is loud in the way a bell or an engine is loud. It is not. Lightning…
This is one of the stranger problems in biology, and it went unsolved for a long time because every intuitive answer fails. The roots are not pushing hard enough. There…
The intuitive model of a mosquito bite is that something sharp went into you and the hole is now irritated. Almost none of that is right. There is no single…