
Life inside the Extinction
These are startling times, but there’s a way out
These are startling times, but there’s a way out
Is life’s persistence on Earth really the norm?
In a vast game of chance and competition, things can get ugly
Our consciousness gets in the way of thinking about evolution
People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor - like vaccine safety - there is almost no debate in the scientific community...
Three scientists sped up evolutionary changes in the lab to make cleaner fuels and cancer drugs
What might make life hard to recognize as life?
The claims of young-Earth creationists are easily checked and easily countered. And a new book—written by former creationists themselves—does this in substantive, compelling detail.....
In the race for survival, predators can achieve impressive strengths and speeds—but research reveals that when it comes to strategy, their prey may have the upper hand. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on January 24, 2018...
Glass and metal surfaces temporarily "blind" a bat by bouncing sound waves in the wrong direction, which sometimes results in a collision. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on September 7, 2017...
Human colonization of space would be terrifyingly hard, and that's the best thing about it
Sirens—long-bodied, aquatic salamanders—are weird. But are they really so weird that they might not be salamanders at all? It's a radical idea that has at least been considered...
Might it be that salamanders (and caecilians) are not close kin of frogs, that they evolved wholly independently of all other tetrapods?
Mammals are but the only surviving members of a far grander, older lineage
New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as ‘the hobbit’. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on June 8, 2016. ..
Once upon a time, maniraptoran dinosaurs evolved small body size and complex feathers...
A brief roundup of two intriguing pieces of recent research
Of paravians, oviraptorosaurs, therizinosaurs, alvarezsaurs and more - a galaxy of bird-like, feathered dinosaurs...
The evolutionary history of maniraptoran dinosaurs was complex, perhaps messy. But all is not lost...
A simple proposal for a way to pursue some answers to the origins of life
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