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 grab crabs in lab experiments. Now Harvard researchers have begun discovering what makes octopus suckers so smart.

The platypus is perhaps the most evolution-defying creature on Earth.

Recently, researchers have reported on the world’s “highest-dwelling mammal,” the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse, observed upon a dormant volcano 6,739 meters (22,110 feet) above sea level.¹ While the discovery of birds at greater altitudes is not surprising, “that mammals can live at these heights is astonishing, considering there’s only about 44 percent of the oxygen available at s

In 2020, Hungarian zoologists described the hybridization of a Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish.¹ Some sources have reported the scientists created a “franken-fish”—as indeed it looks quite bizarre.² Researchers, however, are calling it the sturddlefish—with sharp fins and an elongated nose.³

Did Modigliani’s striking lizard—a variety of Agamidae “dragon lizard”—go extinct, or has it just been hiding in Indonesia for 129 years?