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How Your Embryo Knew What To Do
The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.
Red-Eyed Magpies, White-Speckled Ravens & Other Birds of Unusual Feathers
“This here is my favorite cabinet,” Hein van Grouw tells me as we walk around the back rooms of the Natural History Museum at Tring, 30 miles northwest of London as the crow flies. He pulls the steel double-doors open, revealing a menagerie of stuffed birds. On the top shelves there are snipes, rails, and […]
These Males Are Cheating Animals
The tricks they play would make Darwin blush.
Fish School Us on Wind Power
Record-efficiency turbine farms are being inspired by sealife.
