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Whales evolved a bit more than 50 million years ago from hoofed, land-dwelling mammals as big as a medium-sized dog.

Keep an eye out for volcanic ash (tuf) and even some fossils that froze in the ancient marine rocks. The fossils provide a glimpse of sea life in the long book of life on Earth. 

"Dinosaurs nearly always outsized their mammal contemporaries, so traditional belief has been that their interactions were unilateral - the bigger dinosaurs always ate the smaller mammals."

The pterosaur was nicknamed after the king of rock and roll due to a giant pompadour-like bony crest on its skull.

Through digitally recreating the muscles of an early human ancestor, research has shed new light on how humans evolved to walk upright.

Crassigyrinus would have likely been a feared predator in its day, as it would have behaved somewhat like a modern crocodile.

More than half of the skeleton's bones are original. The rest are replacements made from plaster and epoxy resin casts.

Bats are one of the most unique and fascinating creatures on the planet. Despite the immense interest in bats, there is still a lot we don't know about their history.

The climate crisis, which is already raining down plagues upon the earth, advances at an accelerated pace. The doom of millions of people and thousands of species, barring a miracle, is inevitable.

The delayed appearance of these animals shows that this was not a unique period of rapid evolutionary advances, as previously believed.