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A product of the Cretaceous.
science

A Gnat in Amber With an Important Stowaway: Ancient Orchid Pollen

Orchids are much older than we thought.
Kelsey Kennedy May 4, 2017
The preserved tick, full of blood.
insects

Found: An Ancient Tick Preserved in Amber With Fossilized Mammal Blood

There’s a reason why this sounds so much like the beginning of Jurassic Park.
Sarah Laskow April 4, 2017
Very very old plants.
geology

Found: The Oldest Plant Fossil Ever Discovered

It looks like red algae.
Sarah Laskow March 15, 2017
Coalseam Conservation Reserve in summer
Nangetty, Australia

Coalseam Conservation Park

Created as a coal reserve, it is today a natural park with stunning wildflowers, ancient marine fossils, and remnants of a 19th century mine.
An artist's rendering of the worm.
news

Found: The Fossil of a Giant, Extinct, 400-Million-Year-Old Worm

It went unnoticed in a museum for years.
Erik Shilling February 21, 2017
museums

How Museum Preparators Uncover Fossil Specimens

It takes a steady hand and hours of dedication.
Lauren Young January 19, 2017
A fossil groundcherry, Physalis infinemundi.
food

Found: An Ancient Groundcherry That Proves Nightshades Are Older Than We Think

The family of tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers could be millions of years older than anyone realized.
Sarah Laskow January 5, 2017
animals

Found: Ancient Elephant Fossils Hidden Beneath L.A.'s New Subway

The city is full of fossils.
Sarah Laskow December 1, 2016
Researchers hold a model of Alfred the whale's telltale skull.
animals

How Did The Hugest Whales End Up With Baleen Instead Of Teeth?

The answer is: they literally sucked.
Cara Giaimo December 1, 2016
Mausoleum with Statue
Canton, Ohio

McKinley Presidential Library & Museum

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.
Møns Klint
Borre, Denmark

Møns Klint

A natural wonder in south Denmark.
Greenfield Center, New York

Lester Park

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.
A polished Petoskey Stone.
Harbor Springs, Michigan

Petoskey State Park

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
news

Proteins Preserved on 3.8 Million-Year-Old Eggshell Are a Portal to 'Deep Time'

These proteins are 50 times older than the oldest DNA ever sequenced.
Sarah Laskow September 27, 2016
Tetrapod Trackway
Kerry, Ireland

Tetrapod Trackway

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
animals

Found: Evidence That Cat-Sized 'Rat-Kangaroos' Once Hopped the Earth

Related: What exactly is a bettong?
Sarah Laskow July 25, 2016
animals

Wings Found from 99 Million Years Ago Are a Lot Like Those on Birds Today

They were encased in amber.
Erik Shilling June 29, 2016
Los Angeles, California

La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.