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- 1From:Natural History (Vol. 131, Issue 3)The opportunity to find fossils of organisms that lived tens or even hundreds of millions of years ago casts a spell that is both potent and universal. Fossils provide a road map to the origins and evolution of life on...
- 2From:American History (Vol. 57, Issue 4)A decade ago, Tim Rowe, a paleontologist with the University of Texas at Austin, got curious about bones on property he owns in New Mexico. Rowe's interest led to a study. The results found that the bones, above, were...
- 3From:The EconomistAn inhabitant of Flatland Even before the Cambrian, biology's "reset" button was being pushed M ASS EXTINCTION is, as it were, a way of life. Earth's history has seen several. The most famous, 66m years ago at the...
- 4From:National Review (Vol. 74, Issue 21)Out: state birds. In: state dinosaurs. Massachusetts has now joined the growing list of states with a representative dinosaur. Said to have roamed the earth millions of years ago, Podokesaurus holyokensis was discovered...
- 5From:Woman's Day (Vol. 85, Issue 6)OCTOBER 12 Make no bones about it, these are the most dino-mite places in the U.S. to see ancient remains up close on Fossil Day. ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS Royal, NE At this active research and dig site where fossils...
- 6From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 9)Hiking near his New Mexico home, Gary Hartley noticed pieces of what looked like tusk ivory in his path. He informed the landowner, vertebrate paleontologist Timothy Rowe, and together they found more tusk and bone...
- 7From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 8)Throughout human history, desert lands have produced more than a few prophets, messiahs, shamans, philosophers, mystics, lunatics, and, of course, writers. It seems that the vast and vacant expanses and uncloaked...
- 8From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 7)In every nook between work and leisure, technolnogy injects itself, promising to make my life more connected, easier: audiobooks and podcasts; GPS software; smartwatches that track heart rate and exercise; an app for...
- 9From:The EconomistThe Buesching mastodon died about 13,200 years ago, aged 34 G EOLOGISTS ARGUE about what is truly the first trace of life on Earth. But to say that living things have been around since about 4bn years ago will do as a...
- 10From:The EconomistA feast for Jurassic insectivores This is part of the oldest known mayfly swarm. It was collected, by a team led by Zhang Qianqi of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, from a site near Hezhou, in...
- 11From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 6)If by some twist of time travel you encountered one of the oddball dinosaurs known as alvarezsaurs, you might mistake it for a vanished member of another dinosaur clade, the birds--perhaps an amalgam of kiwi, stork, and...
- 12From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 3)Sauropod dinosaurs, including such well-known members as Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus, are four-legged, longnecked herbivorous animals that roamed parts of Asia and Africa during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous...
- 13From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 2)Among the giants during the Age of Dinosaurs were the long-necked, plantmunching sauropods, such as Brontosaurus. Their precursors, known as sauropodomorpha, dominated land-based ecosystems after other large herbivores...
- 14From:National Geographic (Vol. 241, Issue 2)SOME VERY OLD OBJECTS come in exquisite containers--gilded sarcophagi, carved chests--and others, in less appealing packages. The newfound beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is among the latter. A team of scientists reported...
- 15From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 51, Issue 1)David Baker is the author or editor of eighteen books, including twelve books of poetry, most recently Swift: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2019). His new collection , Whale Fall, is forthcoming in 2022 . You...
- 16From:Discover (Vol. 43, Issue 1)A GIANT ASTEROID smashing into our planet sounds singularly catastrophic. But it might have also sparked environmental shifts that define Earth as we know it. New research suggests that the Chicxulub asteroid impact that...
- 17From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 10)The discovery of a fossil jawbone in north western Queensland, Australia, has led researchers to describe it as a distinct species of pterosaur--the continent's largest yet known. During the Lower Cretaceous,...
- 18From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 10)The fossils from Triassic times--buried deepest in the Astartekloft cliffs of East Greenland--reveal once resplendent, verdant riverbank forests, whose towering trees provided homes for a variety of species in their...
- 19From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 10)Madagascar experienced a major faunal turnover near the end of the first millennium CE that particularly affected terrestrial, largebodied vertebrate species. As my colmously over the past few years, but no consensus has...
- 20From:National Geographic (Vol. 240, Issue 5)WHO WAS 'DRAGON MAN'? AN UNEARTHED SKULL FROM MORE THAN 146,000 YEARS AGO MAY REPRESENT A NEW HUMAN SPECIES. NEARLY 90 YEARS AFTER it was hidden at the bottom of an abandoned well, a stunningly preserved skull is...