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An Invisible Line Splits Indonesian Fauna. Here’s Where It Came From.
Pay a visit to the islands of Indonesia, and you’ll notice something strange with the animals. Somehow, traveling…
Wait… Birds Are Weird?
We’ve spent so long living with the quirky feathered animals called birds that we think of their form…
How Did Plants Survive the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?
Around 60% of all plant species on Earth died with the nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when…
What Makes Us Human?
Scientists say our human DNA is roughly 96-99% identical to that of chimpanzees, our closest living primate relative…
The Western United States Blew Up Millions of Years Ago Because of Magma. Why Were There No Extinctions?
An event known as the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up caused several volcanic eruptions across the western United States during…
Were Our Brains Helped Along Its Evolutionary Path By an Asteroid?
Mammals are quite known in the animal world for our pretty “big” brains, so to speak; it supposedly…
Finding the World’s Oldest Predator (And All Its Friends)
Scientists once believed they had the earliest evidence of animals documented in sufficient detail. Of course, given how…
Here’s Why Darwin Wasn’t a Fan of Barnacles
Barnacles have perplexed scientists for decades, and while we know a lot more about them now than we…
Our Ancestors Met Neanderthals—And They May Have Met Earlier Than We Once Thought
It’s common knowledge to most of us that ancient human relatives lived with us in at least a…
How Seahorses Evolved and Spread From Southeast Asia
Seahorses can be found in close to every ocean habitat around the world, and are pretty famous for…