George Washington’s little buttercup
Two men set out on the Potomac River in 1892 looking for fossil plants from the days when dinosaurs roamed…
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Paleontologists find first fossil monkey in North America – but how did it get here?
Seven tiny teeth tell the story of an ancient monkey that made a 100-mile ocean crossing between North and South…
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Is Alaska’s first new butterfly species in decades an ancient hybrid?
Some might say it takes a rare breed to survive the Alaska wilderness. The discovery of a possible new species…
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World’s oldest chameleon
Editor’s note: New fossil discoveries show this specimen is an amphibian known as an albanerpetontid, not a chameleon. Even though…
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Extinct deer-like creature sheds light on biodiversity
The expansion of the Panama Canal, a century-old waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, began with a massive explosion bursting…
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Thomas Farm: a prehistoric treasure
Places like the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles echo famous prehistoric…
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The evolution of hawkmoths’ sonar jamming
In the 65-million-year-old arms race between bats and moths, some moth species rub their genitals to jam the calls of…
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Tropical turtle discovery in Wyoming provides climate-change clues
Tropical turtle fossils discovered in Wyoming by University of Florida scientists reveal that when the earth got warmer, prehistoric turtles…
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Luna moths evolved long spinning tails to defend against bats
In the cover of night, an unseen war between bats and moths has been raging for 60 million years—and a…
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New UF study reveals oldest primate lived in trees
Say “primate” and most people wouldn’t think of a tree-dwelling, squirrel-like creature that weighs no more than a deck of…
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