An archerfish family tree is the best shot yet at the evolution of sniper fish By Ella Weaver / Apr 13, 2022
Dogs know exactly what they’re doing when they give you the ‘puppy eyes’ By Lauren J. Young / Apr 6, 2022
A closer look at E.O. Wilson’s archives reveals support for racist research By Michael Schulson/Undark / Feb 21, 2022
Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought By Philip Kiefer / Jan 24, 2022
Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized By Kate Baggaley / Jan 12, 2022
Animals have an internal ‘GPS’ that tells body parts where to grow By Ethan Bier/The Conversation / Nov 12, 2021
Inflatable tentacles and silk hats: See how caterpillars trick predators to survive By Erin Fennessy / Oct 29, 2021
These female hummingbirds don flashy male feathers to avoid unwanted harassment By Grace Wade / Aug 26, 2021
Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly By Philip Kiefer / Aug 23, 2021
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. By Jason Bittel / Aug 12, 2021
The debate over ‘Dragon Man’ shows that human origins are still kind of messy By Lauren Leffer / Jun 30, 2021
Who has the scientific advantage in a Godzilla vs. Kong showdown? By Kiersten Formoso/The Conversation / Mar 31, 2021
These fossilized lamprey hatchlings disprove an age-old evolutionary theory By Philip Kiefer / Mar 11, 2021
A geomagnetic curveball 42,000 years ago changed our planet forever By Sara Kiley Watson / Feb 24, 2021
This ancient fish-crocodile mashup snared its prey using a key adaptation By Kate Baggaley / Feb 3, 2021
It’s a cosmic miracle that life on Earth’s lasted this long By ToTyrrell/The Conversation / Jan 25, 2021
Dinosaurs may have evolved into birds, but early flights didn’t go so well By Kate Baggaley / Oct 23, 2020
What hundreds of pickled frog carcasses can tell us about their enormous eyes By María Paula Rubiano A. / Oct 1, 2020
Why we evolved to feel empathy during pandemics and other disasters By Peter Sterling/MIT Press Reader / Apr 29, 2020
Social distancing works—just ask lobsters, ants, and vampire bats By Hawley & Buck/The Conversation / Apr 6, 2020