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Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

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When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Fossils of animal bones found in a cave contained dirt and sediment in their empty tooth sockets. A scientist realized that ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed to explore the Earth's crust, revealing unexpected discoveries and ...

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