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…
Science Mystery
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…
The Predator That Returned Too Quickly
The Predator That Returned Too Quickly Approximately 252 million years ago, life on Earth experienced its most devastating known extinction…
A Fossil That Refuses to Fit
A Fossil That Refuses to Fit Some prehistoric animals become famous because they were enormous. Others become famous because their…
The Claw That Revealed a Giant
The Claw That Revealed a Giant A fossil discovered in Germany changed the scale of one of Earth’s strangest extinct…