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

We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, and how, ultimately, when ...

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

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

A 9500-year-old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the ...

Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years, the way in which ...

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While sour taste's original purpose was to warn vertebrates of danger, in a few animal groups, including us, its role has reversed.

Hyenas weren't always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives. Thanks to Julio ...

Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, ...

How did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didn't achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just ...

All of today's big cat species evolved less than 11 million years ago and yet their evolutionary history remains an almost total ...

We spend a lot of time here on Eons looking backwards into deep time, visiting ancient chapters of our planet's history. But this ...

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