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animal evolution

What’s Earth’s oldest animal? DNA study crowns new winner

Australia May 24, 2023
Prehistoric “monster” was spineless after all

History April 25, 2023
Video

Why do humans like to get ‘high’? Our ape cousins may hold the evolutionary clue

Nature March 14, 2023
Aussie island snakes evolved the ability to grow their jaw in mere decades

Nature January 17, 2023
MicroRNA in octopus brains could have evolved to make them extra brainy

Animals November 29, 2022
Podcast

When did the first animals walk on Earth?

Podcast November 28, 2022
World’s oldest meal found in 558-million-year-old Ediacaran fossil, giving an all new meaning to paleo diet

History November 25, 2022
Fossils from half a billion years ago preserve first skeletons, solving centuries-old mystery

History November 9, 2022
Multi-celled animals may have evolved thanks to “wildly fluctuating” oxygen levels a billion years ago

History October 24, 2022
T. rex, what small eyes you have! All the better to bite you?

History August 12, 2022
While our ancestors went from sea to land, this 400 million-year old fishapod high-tailed it back into the water

History July 22, 2022
These miniature frogs have lost the ability to leap straight because they're just too tiny

Nature June 18, 2022

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