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Marine fossils found at Neanderthal cave site
Science

Neanderthals may have enjoyed collecting tchotchkes—just like us

By Andrew Paul

Illustration of a terror bird standing by river
Science

Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall

By Andrew Paul

Thalattosuchian skulls. Showing the semi-aquatic species (A and B), and the fully aquatic metriorhynchid (C).
Science

Why don’t we have deep sea crocodiles?

By Andrew Paul

smallest dinosaur egg fossil
Science

These are the smallest fossilized dinosaur eggs ever found

By Andrew Paul

an illustration of a crocodile biting an ancient seacow with a shark lurking behind it
Science

Crocodile attacks sea cow. Tiger Shark picks apart sea cow.

By Laura Baisas

Columbian mammoth tusk fossil in creek
Science

Man finds gigantic mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek

By Andrew Paul

Illustration in green, yellow, orange, and purple of big sauropod dinosaurs lifting weights in front of a prehistoric landscape
Science

The mystery of why some dinosaurs got so enormous

By Riley Black

T. rex model, T. rex skull, and Triceratops skull at dinosaur display in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna
Science

4 reasons dinosaurs never really ruled the Earth

By Riley Black

Oldest tunicate on record from the Cambrian explosion, illustrated on the ocean floor
Environment

A 500-million-year-old sea squirt is the evolutionary clue we need to understand our humble beginnings

By Maddi Langweil

Lucy, our ancient human ancestor, was super buff
Science

Lucy, our ancient human ancestor, was super buff

By Sara Kiley Watson

The adult gomphothere skull (foreground, tusk capped in white plaster) was separated from the main body (background, covered in plaster) prior to its preservation.
Environment

Elephants once roamed Florida—and scientists just stumbled on a graveyard full of them

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of Hyneria udlezinye, a large, predatory fish, with smaller fish in the Waterloo Farm ecosystem in South Africa about 360 million years ago.
Environment

A gator-faced fish shaped like a torpedo stalked rivers 360 million years ago

By Laura Baisas

A scan of a mastodon skeleton with an arrow pointing to the trajectory of the spear.
Environment

Ancient humans used mastodon bones to hunt the giant beasts

By Laura Baisas

Geologists collecting Permian fossils on a Tibetan plateau
Environment

UV radiation might be behind the planet’s biggest mass extinction

By Rahul Rao

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers
Technology

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers

By Charlotte Hu

Small European panda from 6 million years ago in a painting
Science

Pandas weren’t always bamboo fiends

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

a close up of a fossil horse tooth
Science

A centuries-old horse tooth holds clues to the mystery of the Chincoteague ponies

By Kate Baggaley

Fossil frog skeleton in rock from German swamp
Environment

A swamp orgy went terribly wrong for these prehistoric frogs

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A winged insect fossil in rock is about 300 million years old, a fossil example of an early animal to take flight.
Science

When insects got wings, evolution really took off

By Ben Guarino

Baby woolly mammoth from North American permafrost with trunk intact stretched out on blue tarp
Environment

This is the most-complete woolly mammoth ever found in North America

By Corinne Iozzio