Watching a bird leap around on its crooked legs before it takes off into the air is kind of like turning back the evolutionary clock and watching a theropod...
Tag - Evolution
Everything we’ve learned about dinosaurs essentially comes from fossils. But million-year-old rocks and bones have left a few hulking gaps in our...
Over 60,000 years ago, an eagle relative with an almost 10 foot wingspan stalked the skies over southern Australia. Dynatoaetus gaffae (Gaff’s powerful...
Dinosaurs came in all shapes and sizes, but we know they could get pretty darn big. For sauropods, a clade of dinos that roamed the planet from the Early...
After an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth, the prehistoric giants lost their dominion over the planet. The mammals that rose up about 66...
The humble sea star is an ancient marine creature that possibly goes back about 480 million years. They are beloved in touch tanks in aquariums for their...
Before being outbred by Homo sapiens, Neanderthals could have been many things: including the world’s first weavers, artists, and even crab chefs. Their...
Location is everything, for both homeowners and dinosaurs. When you’re buying a house, it’s better for your long term happiness to find a neighborhood you...
Hagfish are survivors, and they didn’t get that way by being pretty. For the last 300 million years or so they’ve been doing what they do best: secretin’...
Evolution is a pretty weird concept. Our family members that existed on Earth millions of years ago probably didn’t look much like today’s humans, and who...
