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By Apr 21, 2021
Animals

The T. rex ‘dynasty’ reigned for more than 125,000 generations

Only 20,000 lived at any given time, though.
By Mar 29, 2021
Science

The battle to save one of the planet’s best fossil preserves

Paleontologists and local activists took on a mining company at New Zealand's Foulden Maar. So, who won?
By Mar 11, 2021
Animals

These fossilized lamprey hatchlings disprove an age-old evolutionary theory

Lampreys were thought of as models of early vertebrate evolution, but new evidence suggests otherwise.
By Feb 23, 2021
Science

Were rocks on the menu for these ancient birds?

A deeper look at crystals pulled from a fossil’s stomach presents an intriguing counterargument.
By Feb 3, 2021
Animals

This ancient fish-crocodile mashup snared its prey using a key adaptation

The skill could have made it easier for animals to move from water onto land.
By Jan 20, 2021
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This fossilized butthole gives us a rare window into dinosaur sex

The cloaca is the hole-y grail to understanding prehistoric copulation.
By Jan 20, 2021
Animals

Feast your eyes on this 50-million-year-old assassin bug and its exquisite genitalia

Delicate insect genitalia are rarely retained as fossils.
By Nov 4, 2020
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A female hunter’s remains hint at more fluid gender roles in the early Americas

The 9,000-year-old remains of a woman were found buried with hunting tools in the Andes.
By Nov 3, 2020
Animals

These prehistoric rodents were social butterflies 

A species of tiny mammals that lived amongst the dinosaurs might have led highly gregarious lives.
By Oct 15, 2020
Science

Birds are dinosaurs, and this fossil detective has rooms full of bones to prove it

Paleontologist Jingmai O’Connor looks back millions of years to find hidden bridges in evolutionary history.