evolution

Jumping is sort of a key feature of frogs, so why are pumpkin toadlets so terrible at it?

When you have hundreds of frog species, they can't all be winners.

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 days ago

Acoustic camouflage! Moths’ anti-echolocation wings are inspiring soundproof wallpaper

Evolution beats engineering every time.

By Cassidy Ward | 

6 days ago

How our ears evolved from the gills of 400-million-year old fish

Human hearing was a spiracle 438-million-years in the making.

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 week ago

The world’s oldest known belly button was on an early-Cretaceous dinosaur

Do you think they tickled?

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 week ago

These proto-giraffes had built-in helmets for headbutting

When you have to grow your own bone helmet, you know life is going to be rough.

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 week ago

Great whites might have pushed megalodons toward extinction

There was literally not enough food in the ocean for both of them.

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 weeks ago

Wild animals evolve way faster than we thought

It's hard to measure speeds on billion year biological road trips.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 weeks ago

Termites crossed the ocean at least 40 times over the last 50 million years

Termites are the ultimate invertebrate stowaways.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 weeks ago

Box jellies use the Moon to synchronize mass mating ritual

When the Moon hits the sea, and you're a jelly, that's amore!

By Cassidy Ward | 

4 weeks ago

How the first life-forms on Earth could have spawned from something not alive

You might be the result of a chemical reaction that happened billions of years ago.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 month ago