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Topic: Fossils

Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images)

Megalodon even bigger than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Reproduction of an adult skull of Paranthropus boisei. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Footprints reveal ancient coexistence

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Water Bear, Phylum Tardigrade, showing all eight 8 legs, microscopic (Getty Images/Robert Pickett)

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed

Matthew Rozsa
Reconstruction of Hupehsuchus about to engulf a shoal of shrimps. (Artwork by Shunyi Shu, © Long Cheng, Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey)

An ancient whale-like reptile

Matthew Rozsa
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Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea (Reconstruction by Christian McCall)

Oldest known swimming jellyfish revealed

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Life reconstruction of Olympicetus thalassodon pursuing a school of fishes alongside plotopterid birds (background) somewhere in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. (Art by Cullen Townsend)

Ancient dolphin cousins with weird teeth

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s impression of Balaenognathus maeuseri (Artwork by Megan Jacobs)

Jurassic mix between flamingo and whale

Troy Farah
Life reconstruction of the 120-million-year-old bird Cratonavis zhui (Zhao Chuang/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The dinosaur–bird missing link fossil

Troy Farah
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A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata (FU Boyuan and FU Baozhong)

Fish fossils rewrite the history of life

Troy Farah
The boreal forest in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, is dominated by white spruce mixed with black spruce and birch. (K. Miller / National Park Service)

The mystery of Critchfield's spruce

Zach St. George - Undark
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Gorilla snacking habits raise questions

Darcy Shapiro - Massive Science
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This Nov. 3, 2012 aerial photo provided by the National Park Service, taken off Bellport, N.Y., the week after Superstorm Sandy, shows an opening, center, that was created by the storm in the eastern strip of Fire Island that separates the Atlantic Ocean, upper right, from the Great South Bay. (USGS Cheryl Hapke/National Park Service via AP) (AP)

Ancient plankton have climate data

Elisa Bonnin
Peak-a-Boo Canyon at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (Shutterstock)

National parks could be lost under Trump

P. David Polly - The Conversation
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

Digitizing "dark data"

Charles Marshall - The Conversation
The skeleton of a prehistoric Spinosaurus at Drouot Montaigne auction house in Paris, Nov. 29, 2009. (AP/Francois Mori)

The fossil hunter who changed history

Jerald Pinson
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(The Wilderness Society/Mason Cummings)

Even Dinosaurs Aren't Safe From Trump

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Aunt_Spray)

Male woolly mammoths were rebels

Keith A. Spencer
(Arizona State University)

a wrench in the tree of life

Simon Darroch, Imran Rahman - The Conversation
(Nature)

Meet the penis worm

Joanna Rothkopf
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-621082p1.html'>Juan Gaertner</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sarah Gray
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