Why We Only Have Ten Toes
Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians…
The Second-to-Last Mammoths Ever
About 5,700 years ago, on a small, isolated island off the coast of Alaska, a herd of woolly mammoths crossed a treeless tundra.
How the brown rat quietly spread across the world
The brown rat has spread to almost every continent around the world. But how did they get here? And are they here to stay? {read} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k04BwP9_U4
How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit
One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been the evolution of a world absolutely teeming…