Island life changed how Brazil’s Noronha skink reproduces, but the lizard’s strategy might be failing in a rapidly evolving world

The Noronha skink arrived on the island millions of years ago from Africa, likely on floating masses of vegetation carried by ...
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 ...

How do Minions reproduce? Minions & Monsters director answers 3 extremely specific questions

Minions & Monsters is out now, and the newest movie in the Despicable Me and Minions franchise redefines what can be done ...
Discover Wildlife

"Their pincer-like mouth parts inject a venom that paralyses and liquifies their hapless victims." 10 gruesome animals that liquidise their prey before eating

Nature harbours a chilling arsenal of predators that don’t just kill their prey — they dissolve it. These eight grisly ...
The New York Times

How long does a World Cup game last – and why?

Stoppage time can be added on for a whole range of delays during a match Visionhaus/Getty Images As the cliche goes, football is a game of two halves — specifically, two 45-minute halves to make a ...
USA Today

Huge Kraken-like Octopus may have ruled the seas 72 million years ago

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the ...
Mongabay

New golf-ball sized blue octopus species now identified in the Galapagos

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...
Decider

Is the Octopus in the ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Movie Real?

For the most part, the octopus featured in Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures movie—which began streaming today—is CGI. “There was no way we were going to be able to train an octopus to do all the ...
Deadline.com

How ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Director Olivia Newman Established CGI “Protagonist” Octopus Narrator And Met Request Of “More Marcellus” Upon Delivering Film’s ...

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s film adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel Remarkably Bright Creatures. It took quite a team to assemble everything needed for Marcellus the ...
Scientific American

Do octopus brains work like humans’—or is there another way to be smart?

Three hearts; blue blood; no skeleton; arms like tongues. These are just some of the alien features of octopuses, squid and cuttlefish — members of the cephalopod family. The outlandish list continues ...
Nature

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved. Three hearts; blue blood; no ...