From hiccups to wisdom teeth, our own bodies are worse off than most because of the differences between the wilderness in which we evolved and the modern world in which we live.

The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved

From hiccups to wisdom teeth, the evolution of man has left behind some glaring, yet innately human, imperfections

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Rare Earth Elements Not Rare, Just Playing Hard to Get

Artist's impression of a group of giant azhdarchids, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, foraging on a Cretaceous fern prairie. A juvenile titanosaur has been caught by one pterosaur, while the others stalk through the scrub in search of small vertebrates and other food.

Why a Pterosaur is Not a Dinosaur

Calling a pterosaur a dinosaur is an error of the same order of magnitude as saying that our species is a marsupial

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Dinosaur Comics Stampede

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Oil and Water Do Mix

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Peak Oil: Is It Time to Worry?

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Tyrannosaurus Had Extra Junk in the Trunk

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Two New Theropod Dinosaurs From China

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Reading May Interfere With Facial Recognition

According to author Richard Conniff, "what really got the species seekers started was that a Swedish botanist named Linnaeus had invented a system of scientific classification."

Richard Conniff on The Species Seekers

The 18th century was an age of discovery when a frontiersman mentality yielded scientific breakthroughs in natural history

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Stegosaurs Walked Like Sauropods

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Cats Defy Gravity to Take a Sip

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Unexpected Horned Dinosaur Reveals Complex Evolutionary Pattern

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A Dinosaur in an Italian Church?

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Where Little Fiddler Crabs Like to Hide

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Ten Natural Products That Kill

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iPhone App Puts a Tyrannosaurus in Your Pocket

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Brontosaurus - Out With the Old Skull, In With the New Skull

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Looking for New Discoveries in Old Data

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Paleontologists Take Another Look at a Square-Mouthed Sauropod

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