January 9, 2020 • 10m
How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies...Read more
January 16, 2020 • 10m
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Neandertals were thought to have been…primitive. Unintelligent, hunched-over caveme...Read more
January 28, 2020 • 10m
From end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But othe...Read more
February 4, 2020 • 10m
Throughout the Cenozoic Era -- the era we’re in now -- marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South Americ...Read more
February 11, 2020 • 10m
Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow them t...Read more
February 19, 2020 • 10m
The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrest...Read more
February 27, 2020 • 10m
About 59 million years ago, the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake...Read more
March 10, 2020 • 10m
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of extra r...Read more
March 18, 2020 • 10m
Today, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for ...Read more
March 25, 2020 • 10m
The story of the egg spans millions of years, from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to today’s mammals, inclu...Read more
March 31, 2020 • 10m
We’re still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our dee...Read more
April 15, 2020 • 10m
In some places, the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about 1.2 billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter...Read more
April 22, 2020 • 10m
We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution...Read more
April 29, 2020 • 10m
At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life da...Read more
May 12, 2020 • 10m
In the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the ...Read more
May 20, 2020 • 10m
There’s one kind of herpesvirus that’s specific to one species of primate, and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tr...Read more
May 28, 2020 • 10m
Scientists had no idea what type of organisms the life forms of the Ediacaran were—lichen, colonies of bacteria, fungi or somethin...Read more
June 9, 2020 • 10m
There were a huge number of croc-like animals that flourished during the Triassic Period. Dinosaurs had just arrived on the scene ...Read more
June 16, 2020 • 10m
There was a time in Earth’s history that was so stable, geologists once called it the Boring Billion. But the fact is, this period...Read more
June 24, 2020 • 10m
All told, the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live, especially in winter. And yet, the fossils of many kinds ...Read more
July 7, 2020 • 10m
The rise and fall of ancient walruses, and how modern ones got their tusks, is a story that spans almost 20 million years. And whi...Read more
July 16, 2020 • 10m
To try to solve the puzzle of Lark Quarry, experts have turned to a special subfield of paleontology -- paleoichnology, or the stu...Read more
July 23, 2020 • 10m
Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedev...Read more
August 5, 2020 • 10m
Paleontologists have been studying these dinosaurs since the 1830s, but nobody had ever found a specimen like Borealopelta before....Read more
August 13, 2020 • 10m
Thanks to a recent adaptation, instead of getting sick from the boozy, fermented fruits, one of our primate ancestors could digest...Read more
August 20, 2020 • 10m
To figure out how Thrinaxodon and Broomistega became entombed together, scientists looked at the burrow itself, along with their f...Read more
September 2, 2020 • 10m
Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only ...Read more
September 10, 2020 • 10m
In 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton...Read more
September 15, 2020 • 10m
These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but they’re more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed i...Read more
September 30, 2020 • 10m
Early primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours?
October 7, 2020 • 10m
How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t th...Read more
October 13, 2020 • 10m
While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this u...Read more
October 28, 2020 • 10m
For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again. What is it about the ...Read more
November 10, 2020 • 10m
At more than 2 meters long, Aegirocassis was not only the biggest radiodont ever, but it also may have been the biggest animal in ...Read more
November 19, 2020 • 10m
It arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller, but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or...Read more
December 2, 2020 • 10m
We’re the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequence...Read more
December 9, 2020 • 10m
Lizards are incredibly widespread and diverse but it took them a long time to get to where they are now. Because they used to face...Read more
December 17, 2020 • 10m
For decades, scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas, and trying to figure out if something like it could hap...Read more
December 22, 2020 • 10m
Figuring out what this creature’s face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this weird animal ...Read more