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A close up of the fossilized teeth.
science

Found: A 177,000-Year-Old Jawbone, the Oldest Evidence of Humans Outside Africa

The story of human migration is undergoing a dramatic revision.
Sarah Laskow January 25, 2018
<em>Caihong juji</em> was a study in contrasts.
dinosaurs

How We Know That This Dinosaur Had Bright, Audacious Plumage

Microscopic structures hint at an iridescent past.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2018
A modern eagle's eye is four to eight times stronger than that of the average human's.
science

An Amazing Fossilized Eye Reveals How an Ancient Bird Saw

Feast your eyes on this.
Natasha Frost January 12, 2018
Illustration of an extinct New Zealand burrowing bat by Gavin Mouldey.
animals

Found: A Giant Extinct Burrowing Bat

It used to scurry about on all fours on New Zealand's forest floor.
Vittoria Traverso January 10, 2018
Yum?
dinosaurs

Found: A New Species of Lizard in a Dinosaur's Stomach

A prehistoric snack is now thought to be a previously unknown species.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2018
Skeleton of a plesiosaur on display at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
antarctic

Found: A Plesiosaur, Antarctica's Oldest Animal Fossil

The fossil record of the southern continent has much to offer.
Vittoria Traverso December 22, 2017
Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs
Sousa, Brazil

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.
The amber-trapped prehistoric parasites with an extant tick measuring 0.2 inches.
dinosaurs

Found: 99-Million-Year-Old Ticks Trapped in Amber

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.
Vittoria Traverso December 13, 2017
One of Edward Hitchcock's ambrotype sketches of dinosaur footprints from his 1858 book, <em>Ichnology of New England</em>.
dinosaurs

The First Scientist to Study Dinosaur Footprints Thought Giant Birds Made Them

Edward Hitchcock clung to his theory, even when paleontologists said it didn’t fly.
John Meszaros December 12, 2017
A reconstruction of <em>Halszkaraptor escuilliei</em>, an amphibious dinosaur discovered in Mongolia.
dinosaurs

Found: A Dinosaur With Features Borrowed From Swans, Penguins, and Crocs

It's so unique that paleontologists initially doubted its authenticity.
Vittoria Traverso December 7, 2017
Mineral Wells Fossil Park.
Mineral Wells, Texas

Mineral Wells Fossil Park

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Tucson Mineral and Gem World.
Tucson, Arizona

Tucson Mineral and Gem World

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.
The Aven Underwater Museum.
Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar

Aven Cave

This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.
Paul Broste Rock Museum
Parshall, North Dakota

Paul Broste Rock Museum

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.
The colorful, glowing rocks of Sterling Hill
Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
A cross-section of an ancient tree fossil shows a much more complicated structure than the rings we know today.
science

Ancient Trees Were Bafflingly Complicated, and Scientists Don't Really Know Why

Tree rings are so much simpler.
Natasha Frost October 24, 2017
The structure though to be this fossilized bird's uropygial gland is in the box at center.
dinosaurs

We Now Have Evidence That Birds Preened Their Plumage 48 Million Years Ago

Did feathered dinosaurs do the same?
Kelsey Kennedy October 19, 2017
Petrified wood from the Hubbard Basin in Nevada. Photo by Linda Aksomitis @ guide2travel.ca
Ogallala, Nebraska

Petrified Wood Gallery

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.