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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 ...

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

The rise of the Himalayas affected more than just the immediate area. Turns out, we may have them to thank for everything from ...

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

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

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

When exactly did we start drinking other things, and why? To find out, we have to look at the world's oldest beverages – which ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals' most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, ...

How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive when their hoofed legs seemed to be adapted for an ecosystem ...

It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn't just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize ...

Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is, until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans ...

What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it?

Mountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making ...

While the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development, its story might actually end with redefining ...

We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you ...