Biology

Stories filed under Biology in the Weird Science History archive — 32 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Water Bears That Survived Naked in Open Space
• The Stork That Came Home With an African Spear Through Its Neck
• The Myth That You Only Use 10% of Your Brain
• The Time Australia Sent Machine Guns After 20,000 Emus
• The Toad Australia Released to Fight a Pest — and Turned Into a Bigger One
• The Scientist Who Faced a Charging Bull With a Cape in One Hand and a Radio Transmitter in the Other
• The Seesaw That Was Built to Raise the Dead
• The Slice of Cork That Named the Cell
• The Starlings America Blamed on Shakespeare — and the One Sentence That Invented the Story
• The Parrot That Asked What Color Am I
• The Platypus Pelt a Museum Keeper Cut Open With Scissors, Hunting for the Stitches
• The Rats That Learned to Drive Tiny Cars — and Revved the Engine Before the Ride
• The Recipe for Making Mice Out of a Sweaty Shirt and a Jar of Wheat
• The Lemmings That Never Jumped Off the Cliff
• The Mouse Utopia With Endless Food That Went Extinct Anyway
• The Naked Mole-Rat: The Cold-Blooded Mammal That Lives Like an Ant and Won't Age on Schedule
• The Fish Extinct for 66 Million Years That Rode to the Museum in a Taxi
• The Frog in the Hospital Basement That Told You If You Were Pregnant
• The Geologist Who Tried to Eat His Way Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
• The Goat-Gland Surgery That Ended Up Rewriting American Radio Law
• The Jellyfish That Can Reverse Its Own Aging
• The Chicken That Lived 18 Months After Losing His Head
• Acoustic Kitty: The CIA Wired a Live Cat for Sound to Spy on the Soviets
• The Corn Geneticist Who Saw Genes Jump — And Waited 32 Years to Be Believed
• The Blind Bats That Flew Perfectly in the Dark
• The Baby-Blue Blood of the Horseshoe Crab That Keeps Every Vaccine Safe
• The 100-Hour X-Ray Photograph That Revealed the Shape of DNA
• The 23 Cats the RAF Parachuted Into Borneo to Fight a Rat Plague
• The 8,510 Cows Scientists Counted on Google Earth to See If They Point North
• Clever Hans: The Horse That Could 'Do Math'
• From Mendel's Peas to CRISPR: A Short History of Genetics
• Biosphere 2: The Sealed World Where the Oxygen Mysteriously Vanished

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