Elizabeth Rayne

if Earth wasn’t fortified with iron (kind of like your cereal), life here might have never existed.

Snake venom can kill, but the last common ancestor of humans, chimps & gorillas had amazing resistance.

Some organisms from Earth can survive exposure to otherwise deadly radiation — like the fungus among us.

Planets can grow into monsters in much less time than something that huge was thought to reach "adulthood."

Kind of like Transformers, DNA strands can rearrange and turn themselves into much smaller chromosomes.

What left behind mysterious footprints millions of years ago? It wasn't a bear but a human ancestor.

Gharials have a deviated septum like humans, only worse. Blame it on their bizarre elongated snouts.

Xenobots are living robots that are made of stem cells, look like Pac-Man, and can self-replicate.

Maybe E.T. was trying to use a probe to phone home, but we just didn't know where exactly to look until now.

We know of less than five thousand exoplanets floating around, but that number has just gone up!