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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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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