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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily ...