Author: Jack Auty

In 1847 Alfred Baring Garrod discovered high levels of uric acid in gout patients’ blood and he proposed that the uric acid was crystallizing in the joints of these patients causing pain. Awesome work...

Dinoturbation was partly responsible for the rise of flowering plants but what is dinoturbation and why should you care? Dinoturbation is the massive dinosaur induced destruction of the forests. Take the sauropod the Argentinosaurus...

This one is a crazy story. In the late 19th century an Egyptian farmer found a massive burial site of mummified cats. How massive? We are talking tonnes and tonnes of mummified cats. They...

Here is the experiment, monkeys were trained to retrieve a rock and give it to the experimenter and in return they would get a piece of cucumber. This became routine for the monkeys, it...

The Brazilian wandering spider is considered the most poisonous spider in the world. Six millionths of a gram (about 1/100 the weight of a human leg hair) is enough to kill a mouse (WHO...

The Colorado River Toad (Incilius alvarius) produces a milky toxin in glands on its shoulders and back which resemble the weapons that Blastoise has (how did Squirtle biologically evolve metal weapons anyway? Because I’m...

When fighter planes were first developed the pilots flew around the skies at about 100kmph and attempted to fire hand pistols at each other and even tried dangling grappling hooks from their planes like...

In the 1920s a paper was published where the methods were horrific but at least they got some very interesting results. Two scientists took a nine month old baby they named Albert, placed him...

Usain Bolt is fast but is he faster than electricity? Well…Yes, yes he is. In fact so are you. Electrons, as their name suggests, are the stuff of electricity. They are the negative subatomic...

Why do daffodils pop through the soil creating stunning landscapes only to retreat back under 3 weeks later? The answer (like most other biological questions) is evolution, but the specific factors of daffodil evolution...