P ronghorn antelopes are the fastest land animals in North America, clocking speeds of up to 55 miles per hour for a half mile, and 45 miles per hour for longer. Since they mostly run in response to ...
We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...
Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...
No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was ...
Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...
With the TROT robot, researchers can compare evolutionary changes in quadrupeds. The robot is open source and can be ...
Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, the earliest known terrestrial vertebrate that evolved to eat plants. Described from a fossil that dates back 307 million years, it's become the first of its group to have ...
We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and ...
The Drakensberger cattle breed has been part of the South African landscape for ages. So-called black indigenous cattle ...