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Topic: Evolution (page 4)

A 99-million-year old fossil of a hell ant, preserved in amber, attacking an ancient insect with its mandibles. (NJIT/Chinese Academy of Sciences/University of Rennes, France)

The hell ant trapped in amber

Matthew Rozsa
Goosebumps on a young woman's arm (Getty Images)

Why humans get goosebumps

Matthew Rozsa
Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem (Frank Ippolito/American Museum of Natural History)

Meet dinosaurs' tiny ancestor

Matthew Rozsa
Sled dogs (Getty Images)

Sled dogs have ancient roots

Matthew Rozsa
Dawn light shining on the tidepools (Getty Images)

How life emerged from lifelessness

Matthew Rozsa
(ZenShui/Laurence Mouton/Getty Images)

The surprising science of walking

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
(Getty Images)

Debunking the "lizard brain" myth

Matthew Rozsa
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

AOC schools Ted Cruz about science

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Aboriginal stencil art in Carnarvon Gorge National Park, Queensland, Australia. (Peter Unger/Getty Images)

The meandering path of human evolution

M.R. O'Connor - Undark
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth)

Nicole Karlis
Platypus (Getty Images)

Why the platypus could go extinct

Nicole Karlis
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Sharks are learning to walk

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Lasanthi Benedict)

Why are whales big, but not bigger?

Matthew Savoca, Jeremy Goldbogen, Nicholas Pyenson - The Conversation
(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Count your neurons and your blessings

Suzana Herculano-Houzel - The Conversation
A Green Crowned Brilliant is pictured at a Hummingbird feeding station on January 15, 2016 in Alajuela, Costa Rica. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

How many genes do you really need?

Jessica M. Velez, Alison Gerken, Amey Redkar - The Conversation
Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis (Little, Brown Spark/Getty Images)

Is everything getting worse? Maybe not

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/lindsay_imagery)

A photo of a different macaque monkey, taken by a human. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-295900p1.html'>Dudarev Mikhail</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Do animals hear music?

Jennifer Tsang - Massive Science
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-349087p1.html'>Kuttelvaserova Stuchelova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

History is written across your smile

Darcy Shapiro
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Why "Nigerian Prince" scams dupe us

Frank T. McAndrew - The Conversation
Channel catfish (Wikimedia Commons / Ryan Somma)

Keep the catfish babies away

Brittney Borowiec
(Getty Images)

How politicians misunderstand Darwinism

M.T. Anderson
This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows a mountain lion, known as P-45. (National Park Service via AP) (AP)

nocturnal animals evolution

Kaitlyn Gaynor - The Conversation
(Getty/AntonioGuillem)

Tinder makes you happy — till it doesn't

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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