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Cosmos, deep time, the lineage of living things and the history around them. Most pieces here come with a video; the written version underneath carries the sources.

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The bone that proved whales used to walk

For a century the argument was about which land animal whales came from. Two skeletons dug out of Pakistan settled it, and the deciding evidence was an ankle.

September 9, 20263 min

The world's farmland, and why our survival depends on it

The world's farmland, and why our survival depends on it

Everything we eat grows in a thin layer of soil. Building three centimetres of it takes a thousand years. Losing a football pitch of it takes five seconds.

September 9, 20268 min

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