Devin Reese
The Travels of Straight-Tusked Elephants in Europe, Written in Their Teeth
… and their travails as they encountered early humans
Humans Can Read the Expressions and Feelings of Our Primate Cousins
Just like our primate cousins can read human expressions
Bonobos May Not Be the Peaceful Apes We Imagined
They’re as aggressive as chimps, but with more female bullies
Ancient People Traded Live Parrots Across South America for Thousands of Years
Polly has been wanting a cracker for millenia
This Ancient Crocodile Ancestor Learned to Walk on Two Legs
It was a childhood crawler before it walked upright
Bumblebees Make Decisions as Efficiently as Humans
They flexibly adjust their decision-making to circumstances—just like us
The Dainty Dinosaur That’s Rewriting Evolutionary History
New alvarezsaur fossil offers a Cretaceous missing link
Koalas Recover Genetic Diversity as Populations Expand
Their rebound shows resilience after a severe genetic bottleneck
The Surprising Reason Female Caribou Grow Antlers
Shed antlers offer a valuable mineral supplement for moms
60,000-Year-Old Ostrich Eggshells Depict Ancient Human Thoughts
Homo sapiens were grooving on geometry in the Stone Age
