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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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Chatty Bacteria Might Be Most Vulnerable to Viruses
In a first, scientists have found that viruses that prey on microbes can understand the lingo of bacterial conversations—and may use the intel to time their attacks.
New Fossils Reveal the Predatory Lifestyle of Australia’s ‘Top Marsupial Carnivore’
The first complete skeleton reconstruction of Thylacoleo carnifex, the “marsupial lion,” illuminates how this bizarre carnivore moved and ate.
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.
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