A Familiar Body Enlarged by the Abyss
A Familiar Body Enlarged by the Abyss At first glance, Alicella gigantea looks almost recognizable. It has a curved segmented…
A Saber-Toothed Predator Before the First Dinosaurs
A Saber-Toothed Predator Before the First Dinosaurs Long before the first dinosaur appeared, the land already had apex predators with…
A Sea Monster with the Wrong Name
A Sea Monster with the Wrong Name The first clue was a chain of enormous fossil vertebrae. The bones were…
A Predator Built from Armor and Bone
A Predator Built from Armor and Bone Long before sharks became the default image of an ocean predator, another animal…
A Curtain Moving Through the Midnight Zone
A Curtain Moving Through the Midnight Zone Deep-sea vehicles do not reveal the ocean all at once. They reveal a…
A Creature Longer Than Many People Are Tall
A Creature Longer Than Many People Are Tall Imagine walking through a damp prehistoric landscape. The ground is dark with…
A Sperm Whale Built for a Different Kind of Ocean
A Sperm Whale Built for a Different Kind of Ocean Modern sperm whales are already extraordinary animals. They dive into…
The Fossil That Looked Like a Circular Saw Blade
The Fossil That Looked Like a Circular Saw Blade Some fossils are mysterious because they are incomplete. Others are mysterious…
A Fossil That Spent More Than a Century Hiding in Plain Sight
A Fossil That Spent More Than a Century Hiding in Plain Sight The largest scorpion ever identified was not discovered…
THE APERTURE OF THE PRIMORDIAL SEA
THE APERTURE OF THE PRIMORDIAL SEA Reconstructing Anomalocaris, the Cambrian Giant That Traded Brute Force for Speed Imagine the sun-drenched,…