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INSECTS & SPIDERS (Encore Edition) - Could spider venom be the next insecticide? Why mosquitoes smell you better at night. And debunking the myth of extracting dinosaur DNA from insects preserved in amber. Also, insect legs that bear an uncanny resemblance to modern machinery.
Could scientists really get dinosaur DNA from insects preserved in amber?
What did our mammalian ancestors eat during the age of the dinosaurs? The answer might bug you.
Footprints reveal an encounter between human hunters and the now extinct giant ground sloth.
Dental plaque from ancient Neanderthals reveals that they used herbal remedies.
A slab of rock reveals what appears to be traces of a dinosaur dance party.
A new fossil find in China sheds light on how pterosaurs reproduced.
Our ancestors and their extinct relatives grew in height and weight at different times.
Mammoths that left remains in Siberia were overwhelmingly male. Scientists want to know why.
Remnants of pigments in the fossils of dinosaur feathers provide clues to how they looked and behaved in life.
A Mongolian paleontologist brings poached fossils home.
Paleontologists have discovered a tiny mammal from the age of the dinosaurs that sported tusks.
Paleontologists find the world’s oldest mushroom fossil.
Scientists develop a new technique for finding ancient DNA in rock sediments.
Ancient dinosaur proteins could reveal how the Mesozoic creatures dealt with high carbon dioxide levels.
Dental plaque from ancient Neanderthals reveals that they used herbal remedies.
Camels seem perfectly suited to life in the desert, but they may have evolved those traits in the high Arctic.
DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.
Did modern humans inherit allergies from Neanderthals?
Science Breakthroughs of 2015: Kennewick Man’s 8,500-year-old bones are finally sequenced, revealing his genetic ancestry.
Science Breakthroughs of 2015: The discovery of an extinct human species in a South African cave made headlines this year.
A listener asks how paleontologists know which species a dinosaur’s bones belong to.
What happened after an ice age wiped out nearly all of earth fish 359 million years ago?
