Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

  1. Animals

    When the giant ants went marching

    A new study of an ancient fossil suggests that 50 million years ago, supersized ants went on a cross-continental trek.

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  2. Fossils

    Dangerous dinos in the dark

    Eye fossils reveal predatory dinosaurs’ preference for hunting at night.

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  3. Environment

    Busy bacteria leave big mark

    Earth’s earliest life-forms built mounds on an Antarctic lake bottom.

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  4. Oceans

    Sea changes

    Carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic.

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  5. Animals

    Eating can be skin deep

    In the laboratory, bottom-dwelling hagfish absorb nutrients through the skin.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Evolved to run

    Heel bones hint that humans could run farther than Neandertals.

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  7. Fossils

    Dinosaur Eggs-citement

    Scientists have found dinosaur eggs, with their shells on, inside a female dino fossil.

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  8. Fossils

    Dino Flesh from Fossil Bone

    Scientists may have found dinosaur blood vessels and cells inside a fossilized leg bone.

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  9. Fossils

    Dino takeout for mammals

    Ancient mammals dined on young dinosaurs.

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  10. Fossils

    Big fish in ancient waters

    Fossils have revealed an ancient, oversized relative of modern-day swordfish.

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  11. Fossils

    Dino bite leaves a tooth

    Meat-eating dinosaurs sometimes feasted on flying reptiles.

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  12. Fossils

    Ancient critter caught shedding Its skin

    A fossil reveals that ancient animals shed their skin, just as insects and crustaceans do today.

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