Mara Grunbaum

Why do people love the taste of garlic, but hate the resulting garlic breath?

What are we really smelling when we inhale that fresh-cut grass scent? And why do we like it so much?

Even paleontologists sometimes wonder: Why do Cambrian creatures look so strange?

Do any animals know their grandparents the way people do?

From frightful to downright odd, evolution has created some strange-looking critters.