Fossil
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Arts
Dinosaur Skeleton Sells for $12.4 Million at Christie’s
It may not be a Matisse, or a Warhol, but this multimillion-dollar sale at Christie’s comes from the hand of…
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World
Cannibalism Is More Ancient Than Once Thought, Trilobite Fossils Suggest
Cannibalism is common among the millions of modern arthropod species. A praying mantis consumes her mate after copulation, termites suck…
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Science
Fossil Reveals Secrets of One of the Nature’s Most Mysterious Reptiles
New Zealand’s tuataras look like somber iguanas. But these spiny reptiles are not actually lizards. Instead, they are the last…
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Science
One of Evolution’s Oddest Creatures Finds a Fossilized Family Member
Of all the strange creatures unearthed from the Burgess Shale — a cache of remarkable Cambrian fossils deposited in the…
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Science
How an Ancient Fish’s Skull Got Filled With Fossilized Feces
It’s a dubious distinction in the fossil record: For the first time, a vertebrate has been found with fecal pellets…
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Science
This Ancient Crab Had Unusually Huge Eyes
Modern, adult crabs are not renowned for their swimming ability or their vision. They scuttle across the floors of silent…
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World
Richard Leakey, Kenyan Fossil Hunter and Conservationist, Dies at 77
Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and fossil hunter whose discoveries of ancient human skulls and skeletons helped cement Africa’s ...
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