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Why dinosaurs were terrible swimmers
Everything we’ve learned about dinosaurs essentially comes from fossils. But million-year-old rocks and bones have left a few hulking...
This tiny, 8-foot long whale swam off Egypt’s coast 41 million years ago
Antarctic blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, can reach 98 feet from mouth to tail. But to get to this massive length, these mammals...
Could dragons be real? Not in the way we think.
When it comes to dragons, the human imagination has been stuck in one gear for centuries. Whether it be the Loong dragon of Chinese...
Elephants once roamed Florida—and scientists just stumbled on a graveyard full of them
Today, elephants roam the savannas of Africa and rainforests in Asia, but elephant ancestors once lived in Europe and North America before...
The fiery end of the dinosaurs kicked off the golden age of mammals
Excerpted from The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black. Copyright © 2022 by Riley Black and reprinted by permission of St....
Eastern Africa’s oldest human fossils are more ancient than we realized
A new analysis has pushed the age of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils from eastern Africa back to more than 230,000 years. The...
These ancient marine reptiles got very big, very fast
About 246 million years ago, a marine reptile roughly the length of a humpback whale patrolled the seas over present-day Nevada. This...
This ancient mammoth tusk was found at the bottom of the Pacific
Aboard the R/V Western Flyer on a research expedition off the coast of California in 2019, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium...
Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly
The story of all land animals begins with a squat-limbed, long-bodied swamp fish. Sometime in the steamy mid-Devonian, a family of those...
The battle to save one of the planet’s best fossil preserves
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