
–GALLERY–

–GALLERY–

Over 500 million years ago, a spineless creature on the ocean floor experienced two successive doublings in the amount of its DNA, a “mistake” that eventually triggered the evolution of humans and many other animals, a new study has claimed.



When science fiction writers and futurists imagine humans of the far future, they never think our descendants are going to look exactly the same as we do now. After all, we’ll have access to powerful tools to turn us into cyborgs and hack our DNA, so there’s no limit to how we could reinvent ourselves. But just how weird could our progeny become? Here are 10 of the absolute strangest visions of our post-human future.