Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly By Philip Kiefer / Aug 23, 2021
The weirdest things we learned this week: Falcon sex hats and buying human skulls on Instagram By Rachel Feltman / Apr 3, 2019
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
Important Scientific Mystery Solved: How Birds Lose Their Penises By Lindsey Kratochwill / Jun 6, 2013
The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought By Sara Kiley Watson / Dec 20, 2019
Monkey mouth sounds could push the evolution of speech back by 27 million years By Thomas R. Sawallis & Louis-Jean Boë/The Conversation / Dec 16, 2019
Why do some animals engage in same-sex sexual behavior? The better question is… why not? By Grace Wade / Dec 2, 2019
Did humans truly domesticate dogs? Canine history is more of a mystery than you think. By Kat McGowan / Feb 10, 2020
Meet the Azawakh, the latest breed to enter the Westminster Dog Show By Sara Kiley Watson / Feb 13, 2020
We might have started kissing to share chewed up food (and other delicious facts about smooching) By Erin Blakemore / Feb 14, 2020
Gorillas can be cliquey, too. Here’s what that says about our own social lives. By Marion Renault / Jul 10, 2019
A controversial new study claims Botswana may be the origin of modern humanity By Kat Eschner / Oct 31, 2019
Europeans looked down on Neanderthals—until they realized they shared their DNA By Angela Saini / May 30, 2019
This three-foot-tall parrot proves New Zealand is the mecca of giant weird birds By Sara Chodosh / Aug 7, 2019
Ancient fungi may have laid the groundwork for complex life By Katie Field/The Conversation / May 28, 2019
Scientists caught chimps smashing tortoises like walnuts for future snacking By Lydia Luncz, Alexander Piel, and Fiona Stewart/The Conversation / May 24, 2019
The weirdest things we learned this week: moving corpses, birth control placebos, and the story behind the hymen By PopSci Staff / Oct 2, 2019
Pablo Escobar’s invasive hippos could actually be good for the environment By Sara Kiley Watson / Mar 25, 2020
The asteroid collision that changed life on Earth forever—without killing the dinosaurs By Birger Schmitz/The Conversation / Sep 20, 2019
How some fish are adapted to thrive after catastrophic hurricanes By Thomas J. Kwak and Alonso Ramirez/The Conversation / Sep 18, 2019
Evolution doesn’t work the way you think it does By Quentin Wheeler, Antonio G. Valdecasas & Cristina Cánovas/The Conversation / Sep 4, 2019
Motion sickness is proof that your body is functioning as evolution intended By Spencer Salter/The Conversation / Sep 10, 2019
Social distancing works—just ask lobsters, ants, and vampire bats By Hawley & Buck/The Conversation / Apr 6, 2020
This ancient sea creature had 45 tubular tentacles and will haunt your dreams By Kaitlin Sullivan / Apr 12, 2019
These Chinese fossil deposits shed light on an explosive period in evolution By Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams/The Conversation / Mar 26, 2019
Warblers live longer with a little child-rearing help from their friends By Eleanor Cummins / Mar 21, 2019
Why we evolved to feel empathy during pandemics and other disasters By Peter Sterling/MIT Press Reader / Apr 29, 2020
Rethinking what sets humans apart starts with asking if we’re special at all By Adam Rutherford / Mar 18, 2019