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Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from?

Spiders and their ancestors have been driving an arms race that began before either stepped foot onto land and resulted in the ...

Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins.

In 2003, a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost ...

How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you.

An asteroid impact triggered the K-Pg mass extinction, wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs, ending the Age of Reptiles, and ...

The illustration of Paraceratherium used in the thumbnail is by Dmitry Bogdanov! Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital ...

Where are all the east coast dinosaurs? Why don't we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park? Turns out, evolution ...

Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they ...

For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again.What is it about the ...

How did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didn't achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just ...

How did a relative of the red panda end up in North America? What can this tell us about how long ago – and how many times ...

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While the eruptions of the volcanoes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge usually don't trouble us, their birth was once responsible for ...

Where did our unique moon come from? It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue, pointing to the ...

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the ...

The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important ...

Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the ...

Weasels have an extreme body plan that may push the boundaries of what's metabolically possible. So when and how did this ...

There is one - and only one - group of mammals that doesn't have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of ...