Balhuticaris voltae, a Cambrian arthropod that faced rejection but became a viral sensation thanks to a fossil meme

Or, How I Helped NASA Scientists Find a Polar Bear on Mars

The Earth wasn’t always this nice!

A rediscovered fossil from Mongolia changes what we thought we knew about tyrannosaur evolution

From 17th-century Fish ladders to India’s new Tiger tunnels, green infrastructure is evolving just as fast as serving Animals

A new study shows the megatooth shark may have eaten whatever it could get, rewriting what we thought we knew about this prehistoric giant

A fascinating experiment that weighs India’s hopeful ‘Project Cheetah’ against cautionary tales like Pablo Escobar’s feral Hippos! And is…

Living things don’t exactly adapt to their surroundings

A new study sheds light on the rise and fall of these prehistoric titans and why some survived in the trees while others didn’t

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the…

From Stone-Age deserts to modern triathlons, the struggle to balance H₂O has shaped bodies, brains — and even the occasional tragedy 💧

A handful of footprints from ancient Australia is rewriting the story of how life moved onto land

A new study explains why the fossil record skips over so much ancient life — and what shrimp can teach us about decay.

New study uncovers five distinct dinosaur taxa , three of which had never been recorded in the Nenjiang Formation before

So this next recitation is something like an affirmation of the chemistry of communication … PERFUME. Questions?

The ancient peoples of Latin America did us all a tremendous favor by saving avocados from extinction and gradually making them tastier…

Mother Nature’s calculated risk

Recent study describes a new ancient mammalian fossil with a unique tooth replacement that lived over 140 mya

A new study challenges decades of assumptions about the dinosaurs’ final days — and why their fossils are so hard to find

An epic evolutionary tale of icy oceans, whale-driven arms races, and 150 million years of cephalopod innovation!

Each time you crack your back or stretch after a scroll session, you’re echoing an epic evolutionary drama that began 500 million years ago…

And what their survival story can teach us today

or a possible reason to be wary of conversations with strangers