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When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
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These animals truly ruled the Earth, becoming both abundant and diverse.
How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals
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The key to solving the puzzle of Precambrian life was a tiny bit of fossilized fat.
The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years
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The two viruses that we’ve had for millions of years.
How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
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The arrival of plants on land would eventually help cause a massive extinction event.
How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
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Cerro Ballena has over 40 skeletons of marine mammals from the Late Miocene Epoch.
The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
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Part of a secret to our success as a species has been our early experimentation with food.
When a Billion Years Disappeared
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Some rocks below the Great Unconformity are 1.2 billion years older than those above it.
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
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It took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs.
How the Egg Came First
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We’re here to tell you: The egg came first.
Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?  (ASL)
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Is it possible that monsters that populate our legends were influenced by the fossil record?
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar (ASL)
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Just a few thousand years ago, Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs.
When We Took Over the World
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When We Took Over the World
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