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Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature.
A warm-blooded mammal ancestor breathing out hot hair
in a frigid night [Credit: Luzia Soares]

Evolution has long been viewed as a rather random process, with the traits of species shaped by chance mutations and environmental events -- and therefore largely unpredictable.
Similar leaf types evolved independently in three species of plants found in cloud forests of Oaxaca,...

It took several hundred million years after the formation of Earth some 4½ billion years ago for the initially fiery globe to cool down, allowing the first oceans and land masses to form. The land was barren rock for the next three billion years.
The diversity of flora and fauna as we know them today and the substrate on which they thrive are...

The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large rectangular open areas. These flat zones, called plazas by archaeologists since...