The Most Sci-Fi-Looking Frogs on Earth

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...
EcoPortal.net

Scientists cracked open 160-million-year-old rocks from a French riverbed and found a creature that looks almost exactly like something alive in the ocean today, and th…

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...
Discover Wildlife on MSN

18 ridiculous animal body parts that don’t make any sense (until you learn why...)

Discover the origin and purpose of the structures of living things, from why baboons have swollen bottoms to the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here’s How the Cells Don’t Become a Tangled Mess

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...
The New York Times

The Learning Network

Heeva Alavi, an Iranian-American, writes about her family’s mixed emotions about the World Cup, while Aariv Shah reflects on the SpaceX I.P.O. By The Learning Network We invited teenagers to create an ...