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Here’s how hagfish slime gets 10,000 times bigger in 0.4 seconds
Why everything eventually becomes a crab
These photos are proof that evolution is wild and wondrous
Eating meat may not have been as crucial to human evolution as we thought
Dire wolves are actually ice age mega-foxes
DNA tests can’t tell you your race
These ancient marine reptiles got very big, very fast
The bizarre botany that makes corn a fruit, a grain, and also (kind of) a vegetable
Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly
Jacques Cousteau’s grandson is building a network of ocean floor research stations
Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized
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