Maybe it would be more comforting if there were still a few dinosaurs left, on another continent, of course. It’s just the thought that the part of my brain labeled my reptile brain is tough to ...

For more than a century, one small chameleon species sat in museum drawers and field notes, misread by the very science that ...

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs’ ability to achieve flight, says @HopkinsMedicine ...

Our bodies have inherited many biological mechanisms from our hunter-gatherer ancestors. For instance, they should be capable of efficiently storing energy as fat tissue when they have access to a ...

The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. The ...

It’s no secret: plaintiffs’ attorneys want to win big. Using reptile theory, plaintiffs (and their counsel) are enjoying gargantuan jury verdicts. Through thoughtful and strategic lawyering, however, ...

Gifted science communicator and astrophysicist Carl Sagan won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction writing just once, but it wasn’t for his universal classic Cosmos, nor his visionary book Pale ...