Eons

While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.

In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real.

A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?

Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better.

What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction?

Around 30 million years ago, a new group of predators began to push nautiloids from their former global range into a single remaining refuge. But who were these predators?

In the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk.

How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?

During one of the most pivotal moments in our evolutionary story our brains actually shrank relative to our bodies.

Hidden in rocks once thought too old to contain complex life we may have found the animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.

Hidden in rocks once thought too old to contain complex life we may have found the animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.

If we can see ourselves in the way our ancient cousins dealt with death…what else could we have in common?