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The answer lies in how quickly your body size evolves. Birds and mammals that have reached large sizes have been…

There are very few inevitabilities in life. One of them (with very few exceptions) is death. Unless you’re a certain…

When Clark Giles first heard that dust mites could cause meat allergies in humans, he found the idea so far-fetched…

While the world’s largest animals often get all the attention, some biologists argue that the smallest ones deserve just as…

Tiny pony Pumuckel enjoys the perks of his size while he waits until he’s old enough to be measured for…

Who hasn’t wondered whether snakes can fart? Quantitative ecologist Dani Raviotti posed this question on Twitter in 2017. Her research…

Expanding / As female macaques age, the size of their social networks decreases. Walnut died on June 3, 1995, at…

Rotifers are ancient asexual oddities: these tiny freshwater animals have survived for an estimated 1,000 years or more without sex…

Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion if he had only studied cats. Imagine lifting a cat…