A Face That Looks Almost Impossible
A Face That Looks Almost Impossible The barreleye fish carries one of the strangest heads in the ocean. A transparent…
Science Mystery
A Body Plan with No Familiar Shortcut
A Body Plan with No Familiar Shortcut Opabinia regalis is one of the Burgess Shale’s most iconic animals. It had…
A Fossil So Strange That Orientation Became a Mystery
A Fossil So Strange That Orientation Became a Mystery Hallucigenia is a small Cambrian animal with a large reputation. Its…
A River Predator Built on an Enormous Scale
A River Predator Built on an Enormous Scale Deinosuchus lived during the Late Cretaceous, when dinosaurs dominated the land. Along…
An Explosion Without a Crater
An Explosion Without a Crater On June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion tore through the atmosphere above a remote region…
Tracks with No Visible Mover
Tracks with No Visible Mover For decades, rocks on Racetrack Playa in Death Valley left long trails across the desert…
A Roman Cup with Two Colors
A Roman Cup with Two Colors The Lycurgus Cup changes appearance depending on how light reaches it. The core of…
A Message Without a Reader
A Message Without a Reader The Phaistos Disc is one of the most iconic and enigmatic artifacts of Minoan Crete….
A Fossil That Returned Alive
A Fossil That Returned Alive Coelacanths were known from fossils long before a living individual shocked science in 1938. The…
The Animal Who Became the Ending
The Animal Who Became the Ending Lonesome George was discovered on Pinta Island in 1971. He became the last known…