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Making North America: Life
How did massive volcanic eruptions, inland seas, and land bridges pave the way for life?
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This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum
After discarding their teeth, the ancestors of today’s filter-feeding whales may have fed by suction before evolving baleen.
Reconstructed Rib Cage Offers Clues to How Neanderthals Breathed and Moved
Researchers used modern technology to virtually reconstruct a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal rib cage, potentially shedding light on how these hominids interacted with their environment.
Evolution Lab
What could you possibly have in common with a mushroom, or a dinosaur, or even a bacterium? More than you might think.
Bringing Back Woolly Mammoths
Mixing mammoth and elephant genes could be the key to saving the Arctic.
Lizards Are Mysteriously Evolving Toxic Green Blood
Some lizards have alien-like green slime pumping through their scaly bodies, but scientists don't know exactly why.
Unprecedented Fossil Provides New Understanding of Bird Evolution
A remarkably intact skull from the dinosaur-era bird is giving paleontologists valuable insights into avian history.
Scientists Draw New Spider Web Family Tree
A new study challenges the idea that orb-weaving spiders have a single common ancestor.
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