evolution, n.Trivia

The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex

Testosterone evolved from estrogen 500 million years ago.

If the history of the entire universe were compressed into one calendar year, humans would appear around 11:59 p.m. on December 31st. The dinosaurs would have been wiped out on December 30th.

Grasshoppers evolve about 10 million years before grass.

Goosebumps are evolutionarily designed to ward off predators.

Madagascar wildlife is home to wildlife that is over 90% entirely unique since it has been isolated from other landmasses for 88 millions years.

Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago.

Evolution is clever --- Tuskless elephants are evolving in response to poaching.

Earth's oceans were formed due to millions of years of nonstop rain.

The ‘Stoned Ape’ theory is the idea that ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms was the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang.

The Boring Billionrefers to a period of roughly a billion years when the only life on Earth was a dense layer of slime