Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped ...

Bats can swim. A snake can climb a rope by essentially turning itself into a living accordion. And baby cuttlefish are just ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Marine life is indeed extremely interesting and unusual. Nevertheless, some animals in the oceans look really weird and ...

Some of the greatest scientific findings indeed tend to occur when people least expect them to. For example, on one winter ...

Human brains have been shrinking since prehistoric times, some studies suggest. Whether this is true and why it has happened ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

With rodent teeth, bat-like ears and a woodpecker-inspired hunting strategy, this primate may just be one of evolution’s ...

We’ve all met that person who sounds like they’ve uncovered the truth no one else sees only to realize five minutes later ...

Salamanders regrow entire limbs. We share their evolutionary blueprint. So why can’t humans do the same? The answer ...

Few ever see how a community carries on after a deadly school shooting. Survivors of last year’s attack on Minneapolis' ...

To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...