Two recent findings in biology add confirmation that biological functions are best characterized by engineering principles. This research describes...

Sever an arm from an octopus, and like an underwater zombie it’ll keep groping its surroundings. Even without a brain, its suckers still detect and...

The social behavior of ants continues to amaze scientists with its complexity and efficiency of organization and design. In a new study, scientists have...

Scientists have discovered that virtually all fossils found in the Cambrian sediments of the geologic column appear suddenly and are exceptionally preserved....

The typical honeybee continues to amaze,¹ if not flummox entomologists. For example, a decade ago researchers from Macquarie University...

Evolutionary scientists are baffled by a large ant fossil found in British Columbia, Canada. Known as Titanomyrma, this same ant had been found previously...