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Photo: Wei Wang et al. / Science Advances Scientists Just Found a 245-Million-Year-Old Sea Reptile With Its Organs Still Intact
They even know the last thing it ate.
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Photo: ullstein bild / Getty Images More Than 2,000 Volunteers Are Excavating a 240-Million-Year-Old Monster
It’s an extraordinary effort for an extraordinary fossil.
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Photo: Pete_Flyer / Getty Images This 294-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserved Something Scientists Almost Never Find
We’re still discovering new things about the butts of creatures that died hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Photo: Bruno Becker-Kerber/Harvard University Scientists May Have Been Wrong About Earth’s Oldest Animal This Whole Time
The fossil record is ambiguous and may not always represent what you think.
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Photo: gorodenkoff / Getty Images Humans Have Been Obsessed With the Best Cuts of Meat for 1.6 Million Years
These guys knew where the good meat was.
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Lorenzo Marchetti The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
It’s a butthole. It’s functional. It’s unglamorous. It’s also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built.
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AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/ Contributor/Getty Images This Freaky 350-Million-Year-Old ‘Smiling’ Fossil Isn’t What It Seems
Britain’s Christine Clark was out on a fossil hunt on Boxing Day when the 64-year-old found a pebble that was smiling at her from the sand.
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Jason Edwards/Getty Images Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins
There’s still a lot to learn about where we came from, but with discoveries like this, we are one giant step closer to completing the puzzle.
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