Stranger than fiction

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

Nature is full of facts that sound invented: crayfish send chemical messages in urine released from openings near their faces, and chameleons create many colours by adjusting microscopic crystals in their skin.

Then there are chameleons. They don’t have any green pigments. We tend to think of chameleons as green animals, but much of that colour isn't produced by a green pigment.

Barnacles, meanwhile, use extraordinarily long reproductive organs to reach neighbours. These remarkable adaptations reveal how evolution finds unexpected solutions to life’s challenges.

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