Articles on Biology

Some might think that the butterfly, with its jerky fluttering flight, is a ‘primitive’ and inefficient flyer. Actually, their complicated wing movements generate more lift than simple flapping would do.

by David Catchpoole

You can find beetles in almost any habitat occupied by other insects, munching on anything from snails to dung!

by Paula Weston

What has one foot, is small, and can go over anything? (Hint: it has a wonderfully slick method of locomotion!)

by David Catchpoole, Australia

Engineers wonder at the woodpecker’s resilience to head-banging—and copy it.

by David Catchpoole

The fine nanorod structure of the mantis shrimp eyes allow it to rotate the polarization across the spectrum. This could help DVD players to process much more information.

by Jonathan Sarfati

An important equation people should be acquainted with.

by Marc Ambler

How do squid match their surroundings when they are colourblind? The solution has inspired designers of a camouflaging material.

by Jonathan Sarfati

CMI answers a range of questions about animals in the Old Testament.

by Lita Sanders

Is our eye harmed by ‘backward wiring’? No! Not only is it necessary, but eyes have a fibre optic plate to guide light through the nerve net to receptors.

by Jonathan Sarfati

Remember when the appendix was held up as evidence for evolution—a supposed ‘vestigial organ’? How times have changed.

by David Catchpoole

You can freeze them, boil them, dry them, starve them and even put them in a vacuum—yet they still bounce back

by David Catchpoole

Tropical bats use living leaves to make roosts for their young—but how can the leaves remain healthy when much of their water supply has been cut off?

by David Catchpoole