Paleontology

Space Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light

Motion reshapes time and distance, allowing fast travelers to age less while years pass for observers left behind.

Discoveries Dust from the Chicxulub asteroid baked dinosaurs alive within hours of impact Joseph Shavit

Discoveries New PACA mapping tool tracks fossil locations back through millions of years Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Ancient fossil may reveal first-ever ‘right-handedness’ in the animal kingdom Joshua Shavit

Discoveries 518-million-year-old fossil reveals where spider fangs came from Joshua Shavit

Discoveries Massive Titanosaurs roamed Antarctica over 80 million years ago Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Discoveries Pterosaurs had far more diverse wing shapes than scientists previously knew Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Discoveries Ancient crocodile-like predators rewrite current knowledge of how animals adapted to the land Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Discoveries 574 million-year-old fossils reveal a lack of sex delayed evolution for millions of years Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Fossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal life Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Robot fish helps explain how real fish learned to move on land Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries World’s largest scorpion lived in Britain 415 million years ago Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Discoveries Triassic fossil reveals a beaked, bipedal reptile that looked like an ostrich dinosaur Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Green Impact This giant predator is literally the T. rex of the sea Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Archeologists discover the largest dinosaur ever to roam Southeast Asia Rebecca Shavit

Discoveries Homo erectus and modern humans may have more in common than previously thought Rebecca Shavit