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What Was The Earliest Surgery?
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When did we start practicing medicine in its varied, complex forms?
How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
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For some, the rise of venomous elapid snakes was an almost apocalyptic catastrophe.
Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
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When you only have fossils, how do you know if a dinosaur is female or male?
Animals Are Older Than We Thought
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What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old?
Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
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Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
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Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
Why Only Earth Has Fire
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Fire only exists only on Earth because fire can’t exist without life.
Beans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
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Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans.
The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
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Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be.
When Did We Stop Being Naked?
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How can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes?
Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
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From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
You're Living On An Ant Planet
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How did ants take over the world?
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