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Conjuring Imaginary Creatures
Dinosaur illustrator Mick Ellison on the evolution of using science and art to visualize the long-extinct animals of the deep past
As Mountains Rise, Biodiversity Blooms
Steeper, faster, and higher peaks make more species
In Search of the First Animals
A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life
The Last of Their Kind
Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory
Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought
An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths
Sea Slug, Climate Change Warrior
A species of sea hare has an impressive tolerance for heat and a penchant for gene mixing
