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Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave.
Broadstone, England

Alfred Russel Wallace's Grave

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.
The Mauer 1 jawbone
Heidelberg, Germany

The Mauer 1 Jawbone

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.
Get lost.
wunderkammers

Behold Wisconsin's Cabinet of Curiosity Corn Maze

The trilobite design is a 480-foot tribute to the state fossil.
Eric Grundhauser September 21, 2017
Mammoth skeleton at the centre.
Whitehorse, Yukon

Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 
We're talking seriously big.
dinosaurs

Found: Amazingly Well Preserved Bones of Giant Flying Reptiles

Pterosaurs were so big!
Sarah Laskow August 30, 2017
The Icythyosaur fossil.
museums

Found: The Largest Fossil Ever of an Ancient 'Sea Dragon'

It was pregnant, too.
Sarah Laskow August 28, 2017
art

Australia Just Got a Giant Prehistoric Squid Tattoo

The dug-out drawing of an ammonite covers around one million square feet.
Cara Giaimo August 18, 2017
Meet B. markmitchelli.
dinosaurs

Found: The Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur Ever Discovered

You can look into the face of a dinosaur.
Sarah Laskow August 4, 2017
The new specimen of <em>Santanmantis axelrodi</em> found in Brazil.
science

Found: A Praying Mantis Older Than Tyrannosaurus Rex

The fossil is reviewing the secrets of mantis evolution.
Natasha Frost August 3, 2017
Prehistoric hand prints in a cave in Maros.
Bantimurung, Indonesia

Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.
An artist's depiction of <em>B. americana</em>, with its fossilized skull.
science

Just After a Mass Extinction, This Toothy Fish Ruled the Seas

A new fossil shows it topped the food chain earlier than was once thought.
Kelsey Kennedy July 26, 2017
Sparks with the skull in situ.
deserts

A Kid Found a 1.2-Million-Year-Old Stegomastodon Fossil by Tripping Over It

It was a whole skull!
Sarah Laskow July 19, 2017
The first, almost complete, adult mandible discovered at Jebel Irhoud.
skulls

The Oldest Known Homo Sapiens Fossils Now Come From North Africa

New finds are rewriting the story of our species.
Sarah Laskow June 7, 2017
The strange structures are made of oxides of silicon and aluminum.
Puerto de Mazarrón, Spain

Erosiones de Bolnuevo

An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.
The bone on the right is the newly discovered fossil; the other is a sample sloth bone.
news

Found: The Hip Joint of a Giant Sloth

Another discovery from the subway work in Los Angeles.
Sarah Laskow June 7, 2017
A coprolite, probably from a lungfish, with crushed bivalve shells, fish scales and fins.
science

Scientists Are Using X-Rays to Look Inside Fossilized Feces

The findings can help unravel prehistoric food webs.
Kelsey Kennedy June 6, 2017
Model of a partial dinosaur skeleton.
Laurel, Maryland

Laurel Dinosaur Park

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
A few allosaur facts alongside the footprint
Aarhus, Denmark

Bispetorvet Dinosaur Footprint

A public display of random paleontology.