The Animal That Makes Flight Look Impossible
The Animal That Makes Flight Look Impossible Flight is expensive. An animal must lift its body against gravity, generate enough…
Science Mystery
The Predator Waiting Beyond the Dinosaur Trail
The Predator Waiting Beyond the Dinosaur Trail Dinosaurs dominate the way most people imagine the Cretaceous Period. Tyrannosaurs stalk the…
Stone Spirals Rising Through the Hills
Stone Spirals Rising Through the Hills In the late nineteenth century, scientists examining fossil-rich land in Nebraska encountered structures that…
The Skeleton That Changed the Human Story
The Skeleton That Changed the Human Story In 2003, researchers excavating Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores…
The Fossil Claw That Suggested a Monster
The Fossil Claw That Suggested a Monster A single fossil can change the scale of an extinct animal. In the…
The Dinosaur That Keeps Changing Shape
The Dinosaur That Keeps Changing Shape Few dinosaurs have been reconstructed as dramatically as Spinosaurus. For decades, it was often…
A Corroded Object From the Sea
A Corroded Object From the Sea In 1900, sponge divers discovered an ancient shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera….
A Fossil That Looked Almost Impossible
A Fossil That Looked Almost Impossible The Cambrian Period produced some of the strangest animals ever preserved in rock. More…
A Whale That Did Not Hunt Like a Modern Sperm Whale
A Whale That Did Not Hunt Like a Modern Sperm Whale Modern sperm whales are already extraordinary animals. They dive…
A Creature from Before Familiar Animals
A Creature from Before Familiar Animals More than 550 million years ago, Earth’s seafloor contained life forms that remain difficult…