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A restoration technician at the National Museum of Paleontology shows a set of Mastadon teeth excava..

Science Dec 20

New research says people arrived in Americas much earlier and co-existed with giant sloths and mastodons

By Christina Larson, Associated Press

Science Jul 18

Fossilized skeletons dating to about 125 million years ago from China
Fossil of ancient mammal attacking dinosaur challenges old theories

Even though the mammal is much smaller, researchers think it was attacking the dinosaur when they both got caught in the volcanic flow.

By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press

Nation Sep 03

The newly discovered Phiomicetus Anubis species was a 4-legged whale that lived more than 43 million years ago.
5 Stories: A new 4-legged whale fossil, why China is limiting online gaming for kids, and other stories you missed

Egyptian researchers unearth a four-legged whale fossil, the EPA bans a pesticide linked to neurological problems in kids and China limits kids under 18 to three hours of online gaming a week. Check out these stories and others you might…

By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin

Science May 31

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At Smithsonian’s renovated Hall of Fossils, dinosaurs are just the beginning

The dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History now boast new accommodations. After a four-year, $125 million renovation, the Hall of Fossils now features state-of-the-art technology and new exhibits housing more than 700 specimens. As William…

By William Brangham, Kira Wakeam

Science Apr 10

Callao Cave on Luzon Island in The Philippines, where the fossils of Homo luzonensis were discovered. Photo by Callao Cave Archaeology Project/Florent Détroit
Did scientists discover a new species of human in a Philippines cave?

The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines will cause a lot of head-shaking among anthropologists and archaeologists.

By Darren Curnoe, The Conversation

Aug 03

Why the first flowers may have looked like magnolias

By Mario Vallejo-Marin, The Conversation

An international team of botanists has achieved the best reconstruction to date of an ancestral flower.

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Dec 09

Entire chunk of feathered dinosaur discovered in amber

By Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American

Scientists announced yesterday in the journal Current Biology that they have found an entire chunk of a feathered dinosaur tail trapped in amber – feathers, flesh, bone and all.

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Sep 01

3.7 billion-year-old Greenland fossils are oldest yet, scientists say

By Harry Zahn

A newly discovered fossil from Greenland may represent the oldest known evidence of life on earth and could guide the search for life on moons or others planets in our solar system.

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Aug 29

X-rays suggest ironic end for famous human ancestor Lucy

By Courtney Norris

The "Lucy" skeleton has reshaped our understanding of human evolution, but no one has ever been able to explain how she died -- until now.

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Aug 24

Meet the Dolphin species that was hidden in Smithsonian’s fossil room

By Lora Strum

A new species of dolphin has spent the last 65 years hiding at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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