The first warm-blooded animals appeared abruptly 233 million years ago, according to clues hidden deep inside their ears. Before now, scientists estimated that warm-bloodedness, or endothermy, ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

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