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A new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration.
By Robin George Andrews
What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
By Joshua Sokol
While some animals that rove in groups appear to cast a form of ballot about directions, goats mostly copy each other.
By Veronique Greenwood
Much as small mammals outlived the dinosaur extinction, this rodent beat the odds when Pinatubo blew its top in the Philippines in 1991.
On some Japanese islands where lizards live, the ones that fear predators have higher body temperatures that help them run faster.
By Richard Sima
A close-up on snake skin helped scientists work out what might help certain snakes navigate sandy surfaces.
By Asher Elbein
New research helps explain how some ancient species hunted and fed, and highlights the shell-crushing power of one large trilobite.
By Cara Giaimo
An experiment by evolutionary biologists offers new insights into birds’ brains.
A new study challenges the hypothesis that spinosaurus pursued its prey in the currents of prehistoric rivers.
Researchers propose that some remote ancestors of Native Americans may have been the first humans to forge the bond with wolves that led to domestication.
By James Gorman