Snopes has looked into variety of strange nature facts, from turtles who breath through their butts to the shape of goat pupils.

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Thomas Say was perhaps the greatest entomological tour de force America has known. Born in Philadelphia in 1787, Say ...

It was once believed that walruses dug for clams with their tusks—but the truth is even stranger. They actually use their powerful tongues, like a piston, to suck clams right out of their shells.

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

Black holes may be fuzzballs rather than singularities, meaning they are extremely dense but not infinitely so, and objects ...

From exploding seed pods to venomous spit, nature has perfected some of the most unexpected projectile weapons. These ...

STRI copy gift of Dr. Egbert G. Leigh. NH copy 39088019686997 purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert Leigh explores the results of ...