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Paleontology

The Big-Game Elephants Neanderthals Hunted for Food

A prehistoric butcher bonanza uncovered on an ancient German lakeshore

March 31, 2026

Now We Know What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like

Thanks to crickets and relatives playing their “washboards”

March 30, 2026

The Giant Sloths and Armadillos of Prehistoric Texas 

Snorkeling scientists uncover a treasure trove of megafauna fossils in a flooded cave

March 30, 2026

New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins Northward

Ancestor of humans and other great apes turns up in Egypt

March 27, 2026

The Travels of Straight-Tusked Elephants in Europe, Written in Their Teeth

… and their travails as they encountered early humans

March 13, 2026

This Ancient Crocodile Ancestor Learned to Walk on Two Legs

It was a childhood crawler before it walked upright

March 9, 2026

Restoring Panama to When Prehistoric Beasts Roamed the Jungle

The Central American nation never fully recovered from the loss of its megafauna

March 6, 2026

The Dainty Dinosaur That’s Rewriting Evolutionary History

New alvarezsaur fossil offers a Cretaceous missing link

March 5, 2026

When Scientists Are Dinosaurs 

At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down

March 3, 2026

How the Triceratops Used Its Giant Nose

Its outsized nasal cavities helped it maintain body temperature

February 24, 2026