Inkfish

A version of this post first appeared on June 7, 2012. Happy Halloween! It's reasonable for a hungry predator to hesitate when i...

The Shambulance is an occasional series in which I try to find the truth about bogus or overhyped health products. Physiologist  Steven Swoa...

At first, they couldn't tell where the sound was coming from. Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation kept hearing what ...

Prepare to be jealous, perpetual to-do-listers of the world: because it shuts down only one side of its brain at a time, the dolphin neve...

This post first appeared at the Scientific American Guest Blog  and is republished with permission. With a single bad step as he ra...

Even if you did ask the Chinese soft-shelled turtle what's so great about excreting bodily waste through one's mouth, you would p...

Though mice are skittish and naturally seek out quiet, undisturbed spaces, you can turn them into music fans—if you get them while they...