This is what my mother must have been like when she was twelve—that is, minus the dark hair and upside-down smile and the wild animal held in hostage.

Pliopithecoids persisted in Europe, Asia and Africa long after the first true apes and Old World monkeys appeared, and the fossil of one was the specimen Darwin was referred to.

A common bee will sting and kill another common bee, for cause, but when it is necessary to kill the queen other ways are employed.

to prick holes in paper