Scallop’s amazing mirror eyes
Shellfish has tiny eyes structured like some advanced reflecting telescopes, but make two images.
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Lasting impressions
A smelly creature leaves the senses reeling, but is another example of the Creator’s genius.
The Jurassic Coast—Icon for the Genesis Flood
How an icon of secular geology provides powerful evidence for Noah’s Flood.
Amazing argonauts
Scientists finally discover how the female argonaut really uses its shell
Fine tuning of ‘backward’ eye is vital for colour vision
Our 'backwardly-wired’ retina is an ideal structure to optimize colour vision.
Helpful animals
When creatures work together to help one other, it defies evolutionary predictions.
Why reindeer eyes turn blue in winter
From summer gold to winter blue, reindeer eyes are designed to optimize vision during the winter twilight “blue hour”.
From a frog to a … frog!
The incredible transformation from tadpole to frog defies evolutionary explanation.
Squid do fly!
The old seafarers’ tales should not have been dismissed. Many species of squid can, and do, fly.
It’s an attractive web they weave
Did you know that the electrostatic properties of spider webs, and a ‘quirk of physics’, causes them to actively spring towards airborne objects?
Copy challenge
Man looked to the birds, and conquered the skies. Now researchers are looking to imitate a much tinier winged creature …
How geckos become unstuck
Geckos stick to surfaces with tiny hairs that attract by van der Waals forces, and come unstuck by controlling angle of the hairs and springy curved toes.