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2023
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These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
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They may not look like much, but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years.
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When Ancient People Changed Their Own DNA
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Thanks to our ability to develop and share complex learned behaviors across generations - a thing we sometimes call culture - we have become the ultimate niche builders.
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The Neandertal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity
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If we can see ourselves in the way our ancient cousins dealt with death…what else could we have in common?
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These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
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Hidden in rocks once thought too old to contain complex life we may have found the animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.
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The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs
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How the therizinosaurs lived and evolved ended up being just as weird as their mixed-up anatomy.
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How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
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During one of the most pivotal moments in our evolutionary story our brains actually shrank relative to our bodies.
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That Time the American West Blew Up
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How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?
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Does Our "Junk" DNA Make Us Human?
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In the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk.
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Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Appeared
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Around 30 million years ago, a new group of predators began to push nautiloids from their former global range into a single remaining refuge. But who were these predators?
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The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction
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What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction?
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How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction
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Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better.
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It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
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A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?
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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
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In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real.
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A Natural History of Mars
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While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.
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We've Had The Giraffe's Neck All Wrong
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How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over – one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again.
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We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
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Around 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah. She couldn’t know it, but the planet itself was about to change in .. show full overview
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Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
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What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? While a massive megatsunami might have drowned it for good, the underlying reason that it now lies under .. show full overview
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That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
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Original Title: How a Volcanic Eruption Almost Suffocated the Ocean This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.
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This Is An Ant World, We're Just Living In It
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How did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didn’t achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just been riding the wave of a totally different evolutionary explosion.
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Are Giant Animals Inevitable?
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When Did We Stop Being Naked?
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Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we .. show full overview
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The Secret Extinctions Of The Silurian Period
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Beans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
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Why Only Earth Has Fire
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