Age and “sweet tooth” genes can make eating sugar less satiating
Apologies if this makes me a bad parent, but I’m not actually sure how much sugar my kids eat each day.
Apologies if this makes me a bad parent, but I’m not actually sure how much sugar my kids eat each day.
Cephalopods are part of an ancient lineage, with some of the family tree predating the dinosaurs.
Rays, skates and sharks have a sense that our ancestors gave up (mostly).
This is a story about chromosomes, misidentified butterflies, and conflicting evidence, complete with a missing person.
Milk is a substance that has, for millions of years, been made exclusively by mammals.
Not to undersell the gravitas of a 500-pound anaconda, but most people’s initial image of a ‘scary snake’ involves a view of some very specialized fangs.
We’ve all been there— you’re trying to acquire a decent amount of spider venom, but just can’t stand all that creepy, erratic wriggling from the spiders.
Great auks were flightless, seafaring birds that once lived along the coasts of the north Atlantic ocean.
Evolution is a slow, incremental process that takes place over generations.
While paleontologists have found mummified dinosaur skin, fossilized stomach contents and even traces of dinosaur blood vessels, we don’t have any useful eyeballs.