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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.

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

This dad wanted to learn about dinosaurs, too.

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

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

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

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

Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

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

iStock // Heinrich Hoffmann/Keystone Features/Getty Images // collage by Jen Pinkowski

The Mysterious Origin of Nebraska's "Devil's Corkscrew" Fossils

James St. John, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Prehistoric Ticks Once Drank Dinosaur Blood, Fossil Evidence Shows

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Scientists Unearth a Giraffe Ancestor That Had Four Horns Instead of Two

María Ríos et al / PLOS One

The T. Rex Fossil That Caused a Scientific Controversy

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