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Common Misconceptions About Evolution
Common Misconceptions About Evolution
Rectum Mended Reading: Paleontologists Have Reconstructed a Dinosaur's Butthole to Understand Their Mating Habits
Rectum Mended Reading: Paleontologists Have Reconstructed a Dinosaur's Butthole to Understand Their Mating Habits
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’s Dire Wolves Existed—But a New Study Suggests They Weren’t Really Wolves
Game of Thrones
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25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils
25 Fascinating Facts About Fossils
This Football-Sized Fossil Egg is the First Found in Antarctica, and It May Have Belonged to a Mosasaur
The American Museum of Natural History Just Launched OLogy, an iPad App Version of Its Science Website for Kids
Tiny, Bird-Like Skull Found in Amber Could Belong to the Mesozoic Era's Smallest Known Dinosaur
The Fossil of a Human-Sized Penguin Has Been Unearthed in New Zealand
The Overlooked Paleontologist Who May Have Inspired 'She Sells Sea Shells'
Middle School Student Discovers Megalodon Tooth Fossil on Spring Break
After 110 Million Years, This Spider Fossil's Eyes Are All Aglow
Scientists Find Fossil of 150-Million-Year-Old Flesh-Eating Fish—Plus a Few of Its Prey
Fossilized Fat Shows 550-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature May Have Been the World's First Animal
How Long Does Something Have to Be In the Ground Before It's Considered a Fossil?
Why Are There No More Dinosaurs?
When German Scientists Tried to Rename Bats and Shrews, Hitler Threatened to Send Them to War
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