January 11, 2022 • 10m
Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left...Read more
January 19, 2022 • 10m
The Snake Detection Hypothesis proposes that the ability to quickly spot and avoid snakes is deeply embedded in primates, includin...Read more
January 27, 2022 • 10m
We often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren...Read more
February 8, 2022 • 10m
As revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?
February 16, 2022 • 10m
Do our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these q...Read more
February 23, 2022 • 10m
Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. ...Read more
March 2, 2022 • 1m
There used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go?
March 3, 2022 • 1m
Dire wolves aren’t actually wolves but what they are might be even cooler.
March 4, 2022 • 1m
Could humans survive during the Precambrian?
March 7, 2022 • 1m
Don’t be fooled by convergent evolution.
March 8, 2022 • 1m
Why do human knees suck?
March 10, 2022 • 1m
And it’s been reported that one of the geologists started it on purpose?
March 15, 2022 • 10m
The ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.
March 17, 2022 • 1m
Episode 14 of Season 2022 premiered on March 17, 2022
March 18, 2022 • 1m
Would you have survived the K-Pg Impact?
March 22, 2022 • 10m
A truly enormous ichthyosaur around the size of a modern sperm whale, reached its size within just a few million years of taking t...Read more
March 25, 2022 • 1m
Thylacines are definitely extinct!
March 29, 2022 • 10m
Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.
March 31, 2022 • 1m
Episode 19 of Season 2022 premiered on March 31, 2022
April 4, 2022 • 1m
The bird that evolved twice!
April 5, 2022 • 1m
Episode 21 of Season 2022 premiered on April 5, 2022
April 6, 2022 • 1m
Episode 22 of Season 2022 premiered on April 6, 2022
April 8, 2022 • 1m
I will pass on the parasitic mind-controlling mushroom, thanks
April 13, 2022 • 8m
We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s not always the cas...Read more
April 14, 2022 • 1m
Episode 25 of Season 2022 premiered on April 14, 2022
April 20, 2022 • 8m
While sour taste's original purpose was to warn vertebrates of danger, in a few animal groups, including us, its role has reversed...Read more
April 27, 2022 • 10m
Only a handful of Denisovan fossils have been identified. In the absence of actual body fossils, it’s impossible for us to reconst...Read more
May 2, 2022 • 1m
Episode 28 of Season 2022 premiered on May 2, 2022
May 3, 2022 • 1m
Episode 29 of Season 2022 premiered on May 3, 2022
May 4, 2022 • 1m
Episode 30 of Season 2022 premiered on May 4, 2022
May 10, 2022 • 10m
While we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. ...Read more
May 17, 2022 • 9m
A mysterious, large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent, and it’s been...Read more
May 26, 2022 • 8m
Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the...Read more
May 27, 2022 • 1m
There’s something weird going on at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in what’s now Utah.
May 31, 2022 • 1m
Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens?
June 1, 2022 • 1m
Sometimes modern problems require ancient, evolutionary solutions.
June 2, 2022 • 1m
What was this ancient pup’s last meal?
June 3, 2022 • 1m
The newest oldest saber-toothed mammal
June 8, 2022 • 8m
In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.
June 15, 2022 • 11m
Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. We don’t even know if it’s a trace fossil, or the organism itse...Read more
June 29, 2022 • 10m
In 2003, microbiologists made a huge discovery. One that would force us to reconsider a lot of what we thought we knew about the e...Read more
July 6, 2022 • 1m
Microbiology goes macro with a new giant bacterium!
July 7, 2022 • 1m
Spinosaurus had dense bones!
July 8, 2022 • 1m
Guemesia: a new no-arm dino
July 13, 2022 • 8m
This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big??
July 21, 2022 • 14m
Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible - a...Read more
July 28, 2022 • 11m
Today, billions of people around the world start their day with caffeine. But how and why did the ability to produce this molecule...Read more
August 3, 2022 • 1m
One of the biggest earthquakes humans ever experienced happened around 3800 years ago in what's now northern Chile.
August 3, 2022 • 1m
We have no idea where they were all this time, or who stole and returned them and why.
August 5, 2022 • 1m
Flesh-eating bees exist!
August 5, 2022 • 1m
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient art workshop
August 11, 2022 • 9m
There is one - and only one - group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of Afri...Read more
August 18, 2022 • 11m
Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, wher...Read more
August 23, 2022 • 9m
This fungus was actually manipulating ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do, something strange, yet specific…
August 31, 2022 • 1m
Did you know that fossils can get sick? – Specifically with Pyrite Disease
September 8, 2022 • 1m
Disaster in the great plains!
September 9, 2022 • 1m
80 years ago, a bunch of fossils of ancient humans disappeared.
September 13, 2022 • 1m
Congrats! You just found a wombat burrow. And the cubes are its poop.
September 14, 2022 • 1m
Wisdom teeth can be such a pain
September 16, 2022 • 1m
Paranthropus got chomped by a leopard
September 17, 2022 • 1m
We didn’t always wear clothes!
September 22, 2022 • 1m
Ancient sperm whale heads belonged on every shark-cuterie board
September 27, 2022 • 12m
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our w...Read more
October 4, 2022 • 10m
Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water, others were turning around and diving right back in.
October 5, 2022 • 1m
We might’ve been wrong about how this saber-toothed cat looked
October 7, 2022 • 1m
Sometimes evolution is completely predictable.
October 10, 2022 • 1m
Shanidar 1 got by with a little help from his friends
October 14, 2022 • 1m
Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you.