Rattlesnake on island near Baja California

Planet Earth

Rattlesnake Venom Evolves and Adapts to Climate Change

Head basiceros

Ancient Amber Has Kept a Dirt Ant Frozen in Time For 16 Million Years

Hemiprotosuchus and Chaliminia

The Sciences

How Crocodiles Have Survived Over 230 Million Years and Two Mass Extinction Events

Ice age era humans around fire

How Ice Age Humans Mastered Fire During the Coldest Era in History

Woolly mammoth

The Woolly Mammoth's Evolutionary History Over a Million Years Was a Complex Web

Dire Wolves Colossal Biosciences

Dire Wolf De-Extinction Breeds Both Hope and Uncertainty 

Drosophila melanogaster mating

Tipsy Fruit Flies Are More Successful in Mating Than Their Sober Counterparts

Black and gold howler monkeys

How Can Monkeys Yodel Better Than Humans? 

Eye level with a grey seal

How Can Seals Hold Their Breath for an Hour or More?

Skull of prehistoric human

Leopard Dined on the Shortest-Ever Early Human Relative, 2 Million Years Ago

Various ancient human skulls

Humans Arose From Two Ancestral Populations That United 300,000 Years Ago

Prehistoric Mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-Period Las Hoyas Wetland 

Prehistoric Mammals' Dark Fur Was Key to Survival

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进化

响尾蛇毒液的进化与适应气候变化

古老的琥珀将一只土蚁冻结在1600万年的时间里

鳄鱼如何在一亿两千万年和两次大灭绝事件中幸存下来

冰河时代的人类如何在历史上最寒冷的时期掌握火种

毛茸茸的猛犸象的进化史，跨越百万年，是一个复杂的网络

恐狼灭绝重新引发希望与不确定性

微醺的果蝇比清醒的果蝇在交配方面更成功

猴子为何比人类更能模仿鸟鸣？

海豹如何屏住呼吸一个小时或更长时间？

200万年前，豹子捕食了有史以来最矮的早期人类亲戚

人类起源于两个大约在 30 万年前结合的祖先群体

史前哺乳动物的深色皮毛是生存的关键

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