
How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution
Darwin would be delighted by the story his successors have revealed
Darwin would be delighted by the story his successors have revealed
The finding of a baby dinosaur fossil in the Arctic implies that some dinos nested in the region, which was milder than today but not toasty.
In a cave in northern Spain, stalagmites rich in organic matter are environmental record keepers
Newly analyzed remains depict the scope of a devastating event
An analysis of 391 skulls shows that birds evolved surprisingly slowly, compared with their dinosaur forerunners
Researchers found extra bones within a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil—which they determined to be the ichthyosaur’s last, possibly fatal meal. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Butterflies, fish and frogs sport rear-end eyespots that reduce predation. Painting eye markings on cows similarly seems to ward off predators.
Hermit warblers in California have developed 35 different song dialects, apparently as a result of wildfires temporarily driving them out of certain areas.
A rare cracked fossil shows the world through ancient eyes
Scientists spotted a mouse at the summit of Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot-tall volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Julia Rosen reports.
Originally published in June 1894
Rather than undergoing active chameleonlike color changes, glass frogs’ translucency allows light to bounce from their background and go through them—making their apparent color close to their setting...
Experts explain how radiometric dating allows them to reconstruct ancient time lines
Cooperation made Homo sapiens the last human species standing
Detailed testing of the chemical signature of the Neolithic monument’s most prominent large stones pinpointed where they came from
Forests gave way to fields, pushing hunter-gatherers to the margins—geographically and socially
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one about how a lizard population responded to hurricanes by developing larger and stickier toe pads on average...
Art museums are filled with centuries-old paintings with details of plants that today give us clues about evolution and breeding practices.
The paper that reported the animal’s discovery was retracted following new evidence from a similar fossil
Archeologists say stone artifacts point to occupation more than 30,000 years ago—but not everyone is convinced
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