Unlike his "Pigs in Space" costars Link Hogthrob and Miss Piggy, elderly mad scientist Dr. Julius Strangepork (originally voiced by Jerry Nelson) rarely appeared in other sketches on The Muppet Show.

K. gratus stands out in part because of its cartoonishly wide face and eyes, which reminded the scientists of the famous puppet. Yet the fossil also stands out because of the more delicate ...

In 2018, a team of oceanographers aboard the EV Nautilus were left dumbfounded as they came across a bizarre deep-sea ...

A recently-discovered amphibian ancestor has been named after Kermit the Frog, the ballad-crooning, pig-wooing lime green frog who headlines the Muppets ... reminded the scientists of the famous ...