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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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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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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…

News

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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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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Fossil Reveals Ancient Seafloor Communities

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years.

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.

World

We Regret the Fossil Error. It Wasn’t the First.

A recent announcement that a fossil discovery in India was just residue from a bee’s nest was a reminder of…

Science

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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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…

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