Plenty of us have been there—you see a loved one’s smile in the clouds, spot a dog’s face in the grain of a wooden wall… or see a creepy face peering at you from the shadows. No, you’re not being delusional or ‘crazy’—you just experienced a wonderfully interesting phenomenon that’s known as pareidolia. In short, it means that we see familiar objects or patterns in random objects.
Tree-hugging snakes squeeze tight for safety
For the first time, biologists measure the force applied by climbing snakes and find that they squeeze up to five times harder than necessary.
