There is something I always wondered about. Today I looked it up. Google is my friend.
Why did one species of dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, survive while the other dinosaur species were wiped out when a huge asteroid smashed into our planet 66 million years ago.
How Birds Survived the Dinosaur Apocalypse
Some other interesting websites about science, evolution, paleontology, and what science has done for us lately:
http://science.sciencemag.org
http://www.sciencemag.org/category/evolution
http://www.sciencemag.org/category/paleontology
What has science done for you lately?
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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