Fossil
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Magazine
T. Rex Dethroned? A Stegosaurus Fossil Sells for a Record $44.6 Million.
The stegosaurus had been expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million. It set a record in the…
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US
A Mammoth First: 52,000-Year-Old DNA, in 3-D
In 2018 an international team of scientists — from labs in Houston, Copenhagen, Barcelona and beyond — got their hands…
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US
Fossil Catches Starfish Cousin in the Act of Cloning Itself
The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than…
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US
An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an…
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Opinion
We Can Still Resist a Pipeline to Hell
Earlier this month, the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company announced its intention to build the South’s largest gas pipeline in…
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US
The Biggest Ape That Ever Lived Was Not Too Big to Fail
Fossil teeth reveal Gigantopithecus was doomed by a changing environment and an inflexible diet.
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US
Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities
Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.
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World
505-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish Fossils May Be the Oldest Ever Found
The specimens are evidence of how little the squishy, tentacled predators have changed over the history of life on Earth.
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US
Using Fossils to Bring a River Covered in Concrete Back to Life
The field of conservation paleobiology is helping scientists to bring living things back to parts of the Los Angeles River.
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Magazine
The Dinosaur Bone Market Is Booming. It Also Has Growing Pains.
HULETT, Wyo. — Crouching over a snow-dusted quarry that moonlights as a fossil hunting ground, Peter Larson pointed to a…