A pearl does not begin as something precious. It begins as a problem. Inside an oyster, a tiny particle slips in and settles ...

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“I go to Chipotle and ask for chips to go with my bowl. Why do I get a bag of taco shells?” Jordan says. They then proceed to show viewers a brown paper bag of 10-20 hard tortilla shells. Jordan ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

If you hold up a seashell to your ear and listen, you may hear what sounds like rolling waves and wind. But it’s not actually the ocean. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, what exactly is it that ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

Snails have shells the moment they're born, but it's kind of hard to tell. In fact, it's hard to even see a baby snail. Some are nearly microscopic, such as Angustopila psammion, whose adult-sized ...

Meet animals that grow for a lifetime, sometimes for centuries, and discover why dinosaurs did not, despite their huge size.

We went on a mission to try a range of chocolate-covered fruits from various grocery stores. This covers different fruits, ...