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Mummified animals Napoleon's scientists brought back from Egypt sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 months agoGeorges Cuvier (left) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck fundamentally disagreed on whether or not species...
Giant sea lizards: fossils in Morocco reveal the astounding diversity of marine life 66 million...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSixty-six million years ago, the Cretaceous period ended. Dinosaurs disappeared, along with around...
Megalosaurus, the first ever dinosaur discovery
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months ago2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was formally identified. Here’s what we’ve learned about the prehistoric creatures over the...
Naming a species after a celebrity may do more harm than good
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTaylor Swift had a millipede named in her honor. How does the millipede feel about it?Jeff...
What Black Playwrights Taught Me About Shakespeare
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe author teaches the work of playwrights Jeremy O. Harris, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in her Shakespeare class....
The Abuses of Prehistory
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoOur prehistoric ancestors never went away. This is what Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argued in his international blockbuster Sapiens: A Brief...
The racist Romeo & Juliet trolling has a shocking cultural history
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoWhen I heard that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers had been cast as Juliet opposite Tom Holland’s Romeo in...
