You live in the Jurassic and you've evolved giant, diamond-shaped bone plates that stick out the top of your neck, back and tail. Why, evolution, why?? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Jurassic butterflies disappeared a full 45 million years before the first caterpillar decided to grow up and become a beautiful butterfly—again -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Social spiders in artificially assembled groups of all bold or all shy members fared less well against predators than a group with some shy and some bold members. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com