One of the most shocking discoveries of the human-genome project was that very little separates humans, genetically speaking, from yeast or roundworms. In response to all the hand-wringing that ...

The first edition of eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough's The Sacred Depths of Nature remains one of my favorite heavily marked-up books, and the second edition, highly revised and expanded, is ...

It’s Witch Week here at Decider, so we’re celebrating all the iconic figures who’ve toiled over cauldrons, cast sinister spells and sped away on their brooms and into the inky night. While I’m ...

Octopuses do like to cause chaos—much like the classic tentacled villain. But Ursula also shares traits with these fascinating sea creatures. The animated sea witch in Disney's The Little Mermaid ...