EVOLUTION

The brain imprints itself on the inside of the skull. These impressions have been key to the study of the evolution of the human brain.

Halimeda incrassata is a type of seaweed, and it’s pretty badass for an algae. But none of its defenses deter the sea slug Elysia tuca.

The giraffe's neck evolved in two stages, millions of years apart.

Eurasian beavers have been brought back from the brink of extinction, but bad memories seem to keep them in the dark.

London's Westminster Abbey is not only a grand and glorious place of worship, but also the final resting place of hundreds of history's most famous figures.

A recent study offers cat lovers some new ammunition in the "cat vs. dog" superiority debate.

There’s only one thing in this world shaped like an egg. Not exactly spherical, not exactly an oval, it’s kind of hard to describe what an egg looks like. “Asymmetric tapered oval”? Sure, why not.

People have speculated over the nature of seemingly useless physical characteristics in living things for thousands of years.

Large animals tend to live longer than smaller ones. But this isn't the case for most breeds of dog. What gives?

The first Ice Age movie hit theaters in 2002—and with it came the cinematic debut of “Scrat," an accident-prone saber-toothed squirrel with an insatiable lust for acorns (as of this writing, the manic critter’s Facebook page has netted more than 12,000 “l