Life Hatched From Soft Eggs, Some a Foot Long, in Dinosaur Era
There’s a problem with dinosaur eggs: A lot of them are missing. Dinosaurs dominated land from about 245 million years ago until an asteroid extinguished...
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Tracks Hint at a Crocodile Ancestor That Walked on 2 Legs
Not long after bulldozers began pushing aside dirt for a new waterfront housing complex on South Korea’s southern coast last year, construction was halted and...
11 Great Alternatives to the Top National Parks
The glories of the national park system draw hundreds of millions of visitors each year, even in normal times. But in this upside-down year, with...
A Strange Dinosaur May Have Swum the Rivers of Africa
An enigmatic predatory dinosaur that lived in northern Africa about 95 million years ago possessed a long, powerful tail that may have propelled it through...
First Frog Fossil Found on Antarctica
In 2015, Thomas Mörs reached for a frog in the sand — but the frog didn’t hop away. That’s because the frog had been fossilized...
When Crocodiles Once Dived Like Dolphins and Whales
Some 400 million years ago, animals emerged from the ocean for the first time and began to thrive on land. But after eons of evolutionary...
Skull Fossils in Cave Show Mix of Human Relatives Roamed South Africa
Nestled in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, the Drimolen paleocave is an amphitheater hosting the remains of ancient ancestors of humans. Most famous among the...
Scientists Find 2 Mating Flies Trapped in Prehistoric Amber
Amber, or fossil tree resin, exists in rock layers all over the world. But for some reason, paleontologists never found much of it in Australia...