We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s not always the case. This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, (yes, animal!) evolved from something bigger and more complex.
This fungus was actually manipulating ants’ and forcing strange movements.
We explore the origin of the Mystacodon, what we know today as baleen whales.
There is one group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal catarrhine primates.
