Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet

How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate

It’s become uniquely suited to handle below-freezing temperatures and a diet of poisonous plants The post How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate appeared first on Nautilus.

Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever?

A half a billion years ago, this organism preferred to bend to the right The post Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? appeared first on Nautilus.

Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast

A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.

Republicans have beef with Texas Rep. James Talarico – why does meat matter in US politics?

Two communication scholars explain how what Americans eat became shorthand for who they are.

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg

Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.