When training large language models on human speech, they have the entire history of human communication to pull from. For ...

Remora species like the whale sucker ( Remora australis) aren’t picky eaters either. When sea lice and other parasites aren’t ...

“A normal size pod of common dolphins is somewhere between 100-500,” Domenic Biagini, owner of Gone Whale Watching San Diego ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

In the introduction of the book, you write about how the collection is animated by “irony”: As you note, biologist E.O.