The Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg Island
Early accounts of the fossil forest On Axel Heiberg Island in the High Arctic, in what was formerly the Northwest Territories and is now Nunavut, a site of…
Tongnanlong zhimingi: The 92-Foot Giant Hidden Beneath a Construction Site
The excavator stopped. Not because it struck rock. Because it struck bone. What began as ordinary construction work in southwestern China suddenly exposed the remains of a…
Ancient Whale Graveyard Discovered 23,000 Feet Beneath the Ocean
Total darkness. Crushing pressure. Cold salt water pressing down at seven hundred atmospheres. On the absolute floor of the Indian Ocean, light died millions of years ago….
Sahara Giant Skeleton Mystery: The 80-Meter Satellite Anomaly Exposed
Hot wind scours the empty expanse of the Tenere. Whiteness blinds the eye as fine quartz grit cuts across bare stone. Then, the storm dies. Under cold…
We Called It a Thief for 70 Years. It Died Protecting Its Own Children.
It was found lying on top of a nest of eggs, in the Gobi Desert, in 1923. The obvious story wrote itself. A small, sharp-beaked dinosaur, sprawled…
They Pulled Liquid Blood From a Foal That Died 42,000 Years Ago
It was a baby. One or two weeks old, barely a meter tall at the shoulder, still with its fur and its skin and its face. And…
A Commuter Road on One Side, a 100-Million-Year-Old Highway on the Other
Just outside Denver, a road curves past a slab of tilted rock. Cars pass it every day. Almost no one stops. But the face of that rock…
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Written in Argentine Stone
The age of dinosaurs ended in fire. About 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into ancient Central America and triggered Earth’s fifth mass extinction, erasing roughly…
Born Ready to Fly: The 99-Million-Year-Old Baby Bird Frozen in Amber
It was only days — maybe a couple of weeks — old when a drop of sticky tree resin caught it and never let go. The resin…
A Man Spotted Strange-Looking Rocks Near a Pond in Thailand. They Turned Out to Be the Bones of a Massive New Dinosaur Species
Paleontologists have dubbed the long-necked, plant-eating creature “Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis.” It’s the 14th named dinosaur from Thailand, and it might be the biggest one ever found in Southeast…