A Shark Shaped Like an Old Legend
A Shark Shaped Like an Old Legend The frilled shark looks less like a familiar shark and more like a…
A Common Fossil with an Uncommon Problem
A Common Fossil with an Uncommon Problem The Tully Monster, Tullimonstrum gregarium, is one of the most famous strange fossils…
A Giant That Changed the Scale of Flight
A Giant That Changed the Scale of Flight Quetzalcoatlus northropi was one of the largest flying animals ever known. Its…
A Giant Before Dinosaurs
A Giant Before Dinosaurs More than 300 million years ago, an enormous millipede-like arthropod moved across ancient forest floors. Arthropleura…
A Lake Disaster Without Flames or Lava
A Lake Disaster Without Flames or Lava In August 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a large cloud of carbon…
A Gravitational Pull Hidden Behind Our Own Galaxy
A Gravitational Pull Hidden Behind Our Own Galaxy The Milky Way is not sitting still. Our local region of the…
A Desert Covered with Lines, Animals, and Geometry
A Desert Covered with Lines, Animals, and Geometry The Nazca Lines and geoglyphs of Palpa stretch across the arid coastal…
Monuments Shaped into Silence
Monuments Shaped into Silence Southern Costa Rica contains archaeological sites where large stone spheres sit within pre-Columbian settlement landscapes. The…
Ancient Material Science Hiding Inside Ruins
Ancient Material Science Hiding Inside Ruins Roman concrete has survived in structures exposed to time, weather, and seawater. Researchers have…
A Seabird Erased by Repeated Exploitation
A Seabird Erased by Repeated Exploitation The great auk was a large flightless seabird of the North Atlantic. Its upright…