Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The evolution of the greatest mammal on earth is a more ...

A beautiful artistic reconstruction of Indohyus by Carl Buell. A mouse deer attempts to escape by diving into the water. The proposed transition is a little fuzzy. Coyne outlines it this way; Clearly ...

Although the first ten million years of whale evolution are documented by a remarkable series of fossil skeletons, the link to the ancestor of cetaceans has been missing. It was known that whales are ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. Travel back in time to about 50 million years ago and you might catch a glimpse of a small, unassuming animal ...