June 26, 2017 • 10m
Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They’re ...Read more
July 3, 2017 • 10m
During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happeni...Read more
July 11, 2017 • 10m
There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. I...Read more
July 17, 2017 • 10m
If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus w...Read more
July 24, 2017 • 10m
We know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?
July 31, 2017 • 10m
Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it w...Read more
August 7, 2017 • 10m
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was ...Read more
August 14, 2017 • 10m
Today, we’re familiar with two types of flying vertebrates -- birds and bats. But over 66 million years ago, there was a giraffe-s...Read more
August 21, 2017 • 10m
With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, ...Read more
August 28, 2017 • 10m
Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleon...Read more
September 11, 2017 • 10m
There are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or func...Read more
September 18, 2017 • 10m
Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and ot...Read more
September 26, 2017 • 10m
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But ...Read more
October 2, 2017 • 10m
Part of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it’s just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. A...Read more
October 9, 2017 • 10m
Besides the blue of the oceans, the dominant color of our planet, as we know it, is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little … purple.
October 16, 2017 • 10m
Crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since t...Read more
October 23, 2017 • 10m
We know whales as graceful giants bound to the sea. But what if we told you there was actually a time when whales could walk.
October 30, 2017 • 10m
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, t...Read more
November 6, 2017 • 10m
By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s history. ...Read more
November 20, 2017 • 10m
More than 4 billion years ago, the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent ...Read more
November 27, 2017 • 10m
Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fu...Read more
December 4, 2017 • 10m
Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the ...Read more
December 11, 2017 • 10m
Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, ...Read more
December 18, 2017 • 10m
420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlike...Read more