When an Irish prospector, Paddy Hannan, picked up a gold nugget in the Australian desert in 1893, he could little have dreamed that he had just discovered the richest square mile of earth on the planet. More than a century on, the “Golden Mile” is...

When it comes to versatile vision, the mantis shrimp reigns supreme. Its specialized eyes can pick up several types of light, including infrared and ultraviolet, and its color vision tops ours. Now scientists report that this reef-dwelling crustacean...