It sounds like a fable, but the protagonist is real: a pinhead-sized jellyfish capable of turning back its biological clock. Scientists call it Turritopsis dohrnii, better known as the so‑called immortal jellyfish, and it can revert from adulthood to its juvenile state when life gets rough. That trick doesn’t just dodge death; it rewrites what ...
Here’s a playful twist with a purpose: matching zodiac signs to marine animals to bring the ocean’s hidden dramas into sharper focus. It’s not science to say the stars decide our spirit creature, but it’s a useful doorway into real behaviors, real threats, and real wonders below the waves. As a field reporter who once ...
We tell spooky stories about teeth, talons, and stingers, but the scariest thing in nature might be what happens when these animals disappear. Remove a predator and entire food webs wobble; lose a scavenger and pathogens get a free ride. The surprising twist is that many creatures people dread are the same ones quietly keeping ...
On a sunlit reef, where most eyes register a pretty blur of blues, a mantis shrimp is reading a hidden newspaper of light. Its gaze cuts the water into razor-thin slices of color and polarization, decoding messages most animals never notice. Biologists say its vision is less like a painter’s palette and more like a ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
