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A 200-Million-Year Old Display Fossil Turns Out to Be a Rare Pregnant Specimen

08.28.17

By Becky Ferreira
120 Years Later, Harvard’s Garden of Glass Flowers Is Still in Bloom

07.18.17

By Noémie Jennifer
Tech

This Jurassic Predator Had the Body of a Crocodile and the Teeth of a T. Rex

07.04.17

By Becky Ferreira
Tech

Incredible Knitted Moths Could Go in a Natural History Museum

07.02.17

By Andrew Salomone
Tech

New Species of Extinct Damselfly Was Trying to Get Lucky When It Died

03.20.17

By Becky Ferreira
Entertainment

3 Fantastical Surprises Concealed Inside Historical Objects | Conservation Lab

12.20.16

By Noémie Jennifer
Entertainment

6 Mesmerizing Videos of Museum Practitioners at Work | Conservation Lab

11.30.16

By Noémie Jennifer
Identity

Unicorns Were Real and Ugly as Hell

03.29.16

By Emma Bracy
Tech

Dominican Mine Offers Amber-Preserved Fossils of Earliest Known Modern Flowers

02.15.16

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Jurassic Butterfly Look-Alike Shows How Nature Repeats Its Best Ideas

02.03.16

By Becky Ferreira
Entertainment

Nature Gets Surreal in Ellen Jewett’s Fantastic Sculptures

01.19.16

By DJ Pangburn
Tech

Humans Were Living in the Arctic 15,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

01.17.16

By Daniel Oberhaus

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