In the comments, Doug gets exasperated with some recent posts of mine: Isn’t it amazing how everything seems to provide evidence for evolution? The brain shrinks in some form of pygmy homo erectus.

Teachers often face difficult questions about evolution, many from parents and others who object to evolution being taught. Science has good answers to these questions, answers that draw on the ...

Michael J. Benton receives funding from NERC and ERC. With a wingspan of 12m–15m, Quetzalcoatlus was one of the largest flying animals that ever lived. Indeed, it seems astonishing that such monsters ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.