Most animal species last a few million years before going extinct but there are always exceptions called living fossils. Some of these animals have been around for hundreds of millions of years! Let’s ...

Have you ever seen animals today, like certain birds or reptiles, that sort of look... prehistoric? It turns out that once evolution finds a trick that works, it tends to repeat it. Join Hank for a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...