There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...
For years, museum visitors and researchers alike thought they were looking at the youngest woolly mammoth bones ever found. Radiocarbon dates suggested that two vertebrae from interior Alaska were ...
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The Laophis crotaloides thrived and grew to massive sizes in cold weather conditions. You probably know that the king cobra is the largest venomous snake known to humans, but what if this isn’t ...
For fossil hunters, locating a well-preserved animal is always exciting, and that was certainly the case when Chris Moore located the intact bones of an ichthyosaur some 24 years ago. He explained ...
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The fastest land animal in North America is the American pronghorn, and previously, researchers thought it evolved its speed because of pressure from the now-extinct American cheetah. But recently, ...