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Natural Selection
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn't help. Only physics explains why.
It's not about leaves in tall trees.
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
Symmetrical objects are less complex than non-symmetrical ones. Perhaps evolution acts as an algorithm with a bias toward simplicity.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin's dilemma.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
From crocodiles to birds, certain animals managed to survive some of the worst extinction events in world history.
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet's history, humans were nowhere to be found.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
We’re Earth’s first intelligent, technologically advanced civilization. But maybe not the last. For most of our planet’s history, life in some form has existed on our world. Planet Earth formed some […]
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