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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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Alessandro Chiarenza/Handout ‘Shockingly’ Well-Preserved Skull Changes Everything We Know About Dome-Headed Dinosaurs
This specific dinosaur is going to be studied for years to come as it bridges gaps in our knowledge of its species’ evolution.
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Illustration by SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T. Rex
A new type of dinosaur, which was closely related to the T. rex, has been identified decades after its fossils were first found.
