11+ hour, 19+ min ago   (443+ words) We aren’t the only humans to have called Earth ‘home’; before us there were dozens of human species and like us they travelled far and wide… For the last 40,000 years, we (Homo sapiens) have lived alone - the last humans standing…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (340+ words) How different are elephants to woolly mammoths? Stuart Blackman explains how these two giant differ Woolly mammoths hold a special place in the part of the human brain that thinks about extinct species, where they jostle for space with dinosaurs…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1697+ words) Our planet’s surface is constantly changing, but some areas have remained relatively unchanged for millions, even billions, of years… Earth is estimated to be roughly 4.54 billion years old. Most of the rocks that formed while it was still young are…...