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Two Halves Of 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Reunited Revealing Unique Braincase And Snug Brain TissuesA photograph showing two fossils, that are two halves of a round node. Under each is the museum listing showing where they were found and the dates in handwriting.

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Two Halves Of 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Reunited Revealing Unique Braincase And Snug Brain TissuesA photograph showing two fossils, that are two halves of a round node. Under each is the museum listing showing where they were found and the dates in handwriting.
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Two Halves Of 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Reunited Revealing Unique Braincase And Snug Brain Tissues

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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of EvolutionThe stalactites of Cathedral Cave draw they eye, but there is more scientific interest in fossils found in the cave floor below.

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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of EvolutionThe stalactites of Cathedral Cave draw they eye, but there is more scientific interest in fossils found in the cave floor below.
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How These Caves Alerted The World To Australia’s Unusual Megafauna And Helped Inspire Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution

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For First Time, Molecules Detected On Perfectly Preserved 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Wing Reveal Squid-Guzzling DietA computer graphic of a pterosaur flying over the sea.

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For First Time, Molecules Detected On Perfectly Preserved 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Wing Reveal Squid-Guzzling DietA computer graphic of a pterosaur flying over the sea.
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For First Time, Molecules Detected On Perfectly Preserved 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Wing Reveal Squid-Guzzling Diet

clock-iconJuly 2, 2026

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How Did Spiders Get Their Bite? 518-Million-Year-Old Funky Fossil Is Earliest Evidence Yet Of Spider FangsGeneral body shape of Urokodia under macrophotography showing how well preserved the fossil is

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How Did Spiders Get Their Bite? 518-Million-Year-Old Funky Fossil Is Earliest Evidence Yet Of Spider FangsGeneral body shape of Urokodia under macrophotography showing how well preserved the fossil is
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How Did Spiders Get Their Bite? 518-Million-Year-Old Funky Fossil Is Earliest Evidence Yet Of Spider Fangs

clock-iconJuly 1, 2026

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The World's Largest Known Megalodon Vertebra Went Missing In A Museum Move – Now Scientists Have Found It AgainMette Elstrup holding a 10.8-million-year-old vertebral fossil specimen of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon.

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The World's Largest Known Megalodon Vertebra Went Missing In A Museum Move – Now Scientists Have Found It AgainMette Elstrup holding a 10.8-million-year-old vertebral fossil specimen of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon.
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The World's Largest Known Megalodon Vertebra Went Missing In A Museum Move – Now Scientists Have Found It Again

clock-iconJune 29, 2026

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This 125-Million-Year-Old “Pregnant” Bivalve Is The Oldest Known Fossil Evidence Of Maternal Care In Shellfishthe shellfish fits in the palm of a person's hand

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This 125-Million-Year-Old “Pregnant” Bivalve Is The Oldest Known Fossil Evidence Of Maternal Care In Shellfishthe shellfish fits in the palm of a person's hand
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This 125-Million-Year-Old “Pregnant” Bivalve Is The Oldest Known Fossil Evidence Of Maternal Care In Shellfish

clock-iconJune 24, 2026
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These 570-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Some Of The Strangest Ever Found On Earth, And We Finally Know WhyA diorama of the macroscopic organisms of the Avalon assemblage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the oldest and earliest-known major phase of Ediacaran biota.

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These 570-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Some Of The Strangest Ever Found On Earth, And We Finally Know WhyA diorama of the macroscopic organisms of the Avalon assemblage at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the oldest and earliest-known major phase of Ediacaran biota.
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These 570-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Some Of The Strangest Ever Found On Earth, And We Finally Know Why

clock-iconJune 22, 2026

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Prototaxites Were 8-Meter-Tall Organisms That Lived On Land Before Trees. Not Plants, Not Fungi, Something Else EntirelyArtist impression of what Prototaxites would have look like in life. It is a gray pillar-like structure

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Prototaxites Were 8-Meter-Tall Organisms That Lived On Land Before Trees. Not Plants, Not Fungi, Something Else EntirelyArtist impression of what Prototaxites would have look like in life. It is a gray pillar-like structure
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Prototaxites Were 8-Meter-Tall Organisms That Lived On Land Before Trees. Not Plants, Not Fungi, Something Else Entirely

clock-iconJune 19, 2026

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200-Year-Old Rock Art Of A Tusked Monster May Depict An Extinct Creature That Vanished 200 Million Years AgoPainting of an elusive animal with downward tusks created by the San in the early 1800s.

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200-Year-Old Rock Art Of A Tusked Monster May Depict An Extinct Creature That Vanished 200 Million Years AgoPainting of an elusive animal with downward tusks created by the San in the early 1800s.
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200-Year-Old Rock Art Of A Tusked Monster May Depict An Extinct Creature That Vanished 200 Million Years Ago

clock-iconJune 19, 2026

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In 1891, A Scientist Discovered The “Devil’s Corkscrews Of Agate”. Dating Back 23 Million Years, What On Earth Made Them?A man stands next to a Daemonelix spiral fossil that is taller than he is.

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In 1891, A Scientist Discovered The “Devil’s Corkscrews Of Agate”. Dating Back 23 Million Years, What On Earth Made Them?A man stands next to a Daemonelix spiral fossil that is taller than he is.
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In 1891, A Scientist Discovered The “Devil’s Corkscrews Of Agate”. Dating Back 23 Million Years, What On Earth Made Them?

clock-iconJune 18, 2026

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Paleodictyon Is A Living Fossil. We’ve Found It On Cliffs And The Seabed. Weird Thing Is, We Don’t Know What It Isthe honeycomb print of paleodictyon next to a coin for size comparison

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Paleodictyon Is A Living Fossil. We’ve Found It On Cliffs And The Seabed. Weird Thing Is, We Don’t Know What It Isthe honeycomb print of paleodictyon next to a coin for size comparison
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Paleodictyon Is A Living Fossil. We’ve Found It On Cliffs And The Seabed. Weird Thing Is, We Don’t Know What It Is

clock-iconJune 11, 2026
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Life On Earth Barely Evolved For Nearly 100 Million Years – A Lack Of Sex Was To BlameArtist's impression of a Edicaran animal community.

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Life On Earth Barely Evolved For Nearly 100 Million Years – A Lack Of Sex Was To BlameArtist's impression of a Edicaran animal community.
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Life On Earth Barely Evolved For Nearly 100 Million Years – A Lack Of Sex Was To Blame

clock-iconJune 9, 2026

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Newly Discovered Velociraptor Cousin With 4 “Wings” Might Have Flown Like A Flying Squirrel – And It’s Solved A Longstanding MysteryThe new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. In an artists reconstruction of what both species might have looked like.

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Newly Discovered Velociraptor Cousin With 4 “Wings” Might Have Flown Like A Flying Squirrel – And It’s Solved A Longstanding MysteryThe new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. In an artists reconstruction of what both species might have looked like.
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Newly Discovered Velociraptor Cousin With 4 “Wings” Might Have Flown Like A Flying Squirrel – And It’s Solved A Longstanding Mystery

clock-iconJune 5, 2026

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415-Million-Year-Old Fossils Confirm The World’s Largest Scorpion Was A Meter-Long Apex Predator That May Have Hunted On Land And Underwatera huge scorpion stands by the water's edge

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415-Million-Year-Old Fossils Confirm The World’s Largest Scorpion Was A Meter-Long Apex Predator That May Have Hunted On Land And Underwatera huge scorpion stands by the water's edge
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415-Million-Year-Old Fossils Confirm The World’s Largest Scorpion Was A Meter-Long Apex Predator That May Have Hunted On Land And Underwater

clock-iconJune 3, 2026

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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answerspinosaurus illustration showing the bone above the eye where the salt gland may have attached

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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answerspinosaurus illustration showing the bone above the eye where the salt gland may have attached
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Why Weren't There Any Marine Dinosaurs? A Newly Discovered Feature Of Spinosaurus Skulls May Give The Answer

clock-iconMay 29, 2026