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In leaps and bounds
How is it that frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length, while a froghopper’s leap is equivalent to a human jumping over a 210 metre (700 ft) skyscraper?
by David Catchpoole
Copy challenge
Man looked to the birds, and conquered the skies. Now researchers are looking to imitate a much tinier winged creature …
by Alexander Williams
Living fossils and ‘junk DNA’
Why do ‘living fossils’ and functions in ‘junk DNA’ present problems for evolution?
by Don Batten, Lita Cosner
Would the pre-Fall world have been overrun by animals?
If there was no pre-Fall animal death, would they have overrun the world if Adam hadn’t sinned?
by Shaun Doyle
Genetic algorithms are irrelevant to evolution
by David Abel 
Brilliant brittlestars:
Brittlestars have one huge compound eye, made of an array of perfect microlenses, with hardly any optical distortion. Researchers didn’t dream that nature had such advanced optical technology.
by Jonathan Sarfati and David Catchpoole
How many lives do cats have?
It’s true that cats have an uncanny ability to land on their feet. But that doesn’t make them invulnerable.
by David Catchpoole
The tapir
‘Primitive’? A ‘hodge-podge of leftovers’? Or something else?
by David Catchpoole
Consciousness: a problem for naturalism
Evolution does not explain human language or consciousness, which is a serious problem for naturalism and atheism.
by Daniel Tate
Lasting impressions
A smelly creature leaves the senses reeling, but is another example of the Creator’s genius.
by Tom Hennigan
Scallop’s amazing mirror eyes
Shellfish has tiny eyes structured like some advanced reflecting telescopes, but make two images.
by Jonathan Sarfati
No evolution in pollution: killifish survivors are ‘losers’
Killifish have been found living in polluted rivers with levels of industrial toxins 8,000 times the lethal dose.
by David Catchpoole