50 dramatic twists of evolution

Foreword

A temperate rainforest at the South Pole

A feathered reptile: Archaeopteryx

Lungs and gills in one

A scientific theory for the transformation of species

This giant scrotum is... a dinosaur!

No, we don't suck at olfaction!

Dinosaurs didn't disappear overnight

Crocodiles of discord

Another biogeography

The discovery of a living coelacanth

Double reading at the London Linnaean Society

No more fish!

Fossil half-tortoises!

A new synthesis for evolution

The spinosaurus is a swimming dinosaur

Placenta is viral in origin

Neutralist theory of evolution

A fourth wing!

A new species of mosquito in the metro

Evolution by punctuated equilibria

The gene takes over

Parental care explains our big brains

Life is divided into three!

Genes for embryonic development

Family histories in whalefish

The origin of our fingers on the shelf

Monkeys carve stone tools!

Adaptation is not the only explanation!

Cetaceans are artiodactyls!

First discovery of feathers on non-avian dinosaurs

Frankenstein in drosophila

A (new) coelacanth is discovered alive

Put it all in the same species!

A legged snake!

Hagfish really have lost their vertebrae!

Turtles are diapsids!

Great apes know you're wrong

We're not that violent

The mammalian middle ear had five bones

Lightning evolution in lizards

The age of the human species suddenly increases by 50%!

A different kind of leg!

Why so many amino acids in our proteins?

The oldest fossil mushroom ages 500 Ma!

Embryonic leaflets are not what we thought

A new geospizal species in three generations

An educational coup de théâtre!

Pterosaurs had feathers (piliforms)!

A new human species discovered in the Philippines

The deeper you dig, the more you find!

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