If you can recall high school biology class, you might remember hearing the term abiogenesis. In short, it’s the idea that life arose from nonliving substances via natural chemical reactions. Most biologists who study this theory hold that it was a very lengthy process with numerous incremental steps of increasing complexity. Theories abound about the…

Imagine you’re a researcher, studying human beings in their natural environment. Throughout your career you’ve seen some variation in human size, but while gathering data one day, you come across a human who is roughly the same height as Mount Everest… That’s what happened to marine biologist Olivier Gros back in 2009, but on the…