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2017
2017x1
The Trouble With Trilobites
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26, 2017
Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They’re known the world over because they were everywhere!
2017x2
When Did the First Flower Bloom?
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03, 2017
During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history, there were flowers.
2017x3
The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
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11, 2017
There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name, it might have been the Tully Monster.
2017x4
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
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17, 2017
If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.
2017x5
What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
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24, 2017
We know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?
2017x6
The Story of Saberteeth
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31, 2017
Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it was only the last and largest of the great sabertooths: .. show full overview
2017x7
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
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07, 2017
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you’d never recognize, too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody.
2017x8
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
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14, 2017
Today, we’re familiar with two types of flying vertebrates -- birds and bats. But over 66 million years ago, there was a giraffe-sized reptile that soared through the sky.
2017x9
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
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21, 2017
With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even .. show full overview
2017x10
The Extinction That Never Happened
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28, 2017
Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.
2017x11
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
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11, 2017
There are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned. One of the longest-running of these mysteries .. show full overview
2017x12
The Age of Giant Insects
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18, 2017
Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315 .. show full overview
2017x13
History's Most Powerful Plants
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26, 2017
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely .. show full overview
2017x14
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
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02, 2017
Part of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it’s just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the .. show full overview
2017x15
When The Earth Was Purple
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09, 2017
Besides the blue of the oceans, the dominant color of our planet, as we know it, is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little … purple.
2017x16
'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
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16, 2017
Crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. But even the most ancient-looking organisms show us that evolution is always at work.
2017x17
When Whales Walked
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23, 2017
We know whales as graceful giants bound to the sea. But what if we told you there was actually a time when whales could walk.
2017x18
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
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30, 2017
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how .. show full overview
2017x19
A Brief History of Geologic Time
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06, 2017
By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life .. show full overview
2017x20
The Search for the Earliest Life
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20, 2017
More than 4 billion years ago, the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent years, we’ve started to discover that, even in this hellish environment, life found a way.
2017x21
The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
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27, 2017
Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new .. show full overview
2017x22
The Last Time the Globe Warmed
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04, 2017
Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)
2017x23
What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
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11, 2017
Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.
2017x24
When Giant Fungi Ruled
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18, 2017
420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi.

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