Nautilus: The ninety-tentacle cephalopod.

Crossing oceans in logarithmic spirals shells.

Is the brain made of gray modules?

I'm not feeling metaphoric today.

Awakening.

The exact moment that Harold Whittles hears for the very first time ever.

Jack Bradley

Aerodynamics for what?

Nectar-based brute force is more than enough.

Richard Bomphrey

Sometimes Hope leaves Pandora's box...

...and we call it Obsession.

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre

There are 40,000 known spider species and one of them (one!), Bagheera kiplingi, is vegetarian.

My world was structured in the belief that there was an exception to the rule that states that for every rule there is an exception. And the exception was that all spiders are hunters.

Photograph by Robert L. Curry

Because there is no such thing as a polymath cell.

Yes, I'm fully aware that they have the potential. I also had the potential to be a world class skater neurosurgeon astronaut. That works in Egyptian archaeological sites as a hobby. But it turns out...

The importance of having a mane.

Can awesomeness be adaptive? Yes, it can.

Skull's South Pole.

If you cork it at an appropriate time, the soul don't leave through the hole.

Thylacine: Being a magnificent carnivorous marsupial until 1936.

Yeah, cool fur. But check this out: 120 degrees jaw opening.

The Psychatric Answering Machine.

Press a number and we'll send you the pills.

Anatomy of Mythical Japanese Monsters:

It takes at least four glands to start a gastric fire .

Shoji Otomo and Shogo Endo. More here.