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How The Elephant Got Its Trunk

Are these fossils leaves, turtles, or Pokemon?

What Was The First Beverage?

Smilodon had two pairs of saber-teeth…at the same time

The Mystery of South America's False Horses

Why do these dinosaurs look like ‘terrible lizards’?

When India Was An Island

When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent

Nearly 200 years ago, a new obsession gripped Britain: the Victorian Fern Craze.

The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

This Jurassic fish made the biggest mistake of its life

There's No Single Cradle of Humankind

Giant sloth bones may have been the ultimate fashion accessory in ancient Brazil

The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis

A huge pterosaur colony once lived in what's now Oregon

What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

How Long Have We Been Caring For Each Other?

Who made the first flour?

How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race

Days on planet Earth used to be a lot shorter.

Where Are The Cave Lions?

Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

The World's Greatest Ape

Why did Charles Darwin yell at earthworms? For science, of course

Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought

Why Do So Many Plants Make Caffeine?

Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins

Why are these fossils decapitated?

How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea

What’s with all the giant handaxes?

This dinosaur had dragon wings

Why Only Earth Has Fire

Who found the first fossils in the Americas?

When did we start talking?

Have you ever heard of fossil turduckens?

It Rained For 2 Million Years

The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering

Most animals do not cross this line

Our ancestor contracted a virus - millions of years later, we still have it

When Did We Stop Being Naked?

Snake Detection Hypothesis

Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?

Chili peppers may be MUCH older than we thought

National Fossil Day: The Wheel of Deep Time

We are sweaty runners

You're Living On An Ant Planet

What is a carnivorous plant?

There’s something weird about this 105 million-year-old amber.

That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen

Could dinosaurs have created sonic booms?