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Common Misconceptions About Evolution

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Common Misconceptions About Evolution

Rectum Mended Reading: Paleontologists Have Reconstructed a Dinosaur's Butthole to Understand Their Mating Habits

Psittacosaurus may have attracted mates using its fetching rear end.

Rectum Mended Reading: Paleontologists Have Reconstructed a Dinosaur's Butthole to Understand Their Mating Habits

Game of Thrones’s Dire Wolves Existed—But a New Study Suggests They Weren’t Really Wolves

Not a dire wolf.

Game of Thrones’s Dire Wolves Existed—But a New Study Suggests They Weren’t Really Wolves

25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils

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25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils

This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur

An artist’s interpretation of the birth of a baby mosasaur.

The American Museum of Natural History Just Launched OLogy, an iPad App Version of Its Science Website for Kids

This dad wanted to learn about dinosaurs, too.

Tiny, Bird-Like Skull Found in Amber Could Belong to the Mesozoic Era's Smallest Known Dinosaur

The skull of Oculudentavis khaungraae preserved in 99-million-year-old amber.

The Fossil of a Human-Sized Penguin Has Been Unearthed in New Zealand

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The Overlooked Paleontologist Who May Have Inspired 'She Sells Sea Shells'

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Middle School Student Discovers Megalodon Tooth Fossil on Spring Break

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After 110 Million Years, This Spider Fossil's Eyes Are All Aglow

© Changkun Park, Electron Probe Micro Analyzer, Korea Polar Research Institute

Scientists Find Fossil of 150-Million-Year-Old Flesh-Eating Fish—Plus a Few of Its Prey

M. Ebert and T. Nohl

Fossilized Fat Shows 550-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature May Have Been the World's First Animal

Ilya Bobrovskiy, the Australian National University

How Long Does Something Have to Be In the Ground Before It's Considered a Fossil?

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Why Are There No More Dinosaurs?

CHLOE EFFRON / DINOSAURS: ISTOCK

When German Scientists Tried to Rename Bats and Shrews, Hitler Threatened to Send Them to War

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