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World’s Largest Acid Geyser Erupts, Right in Our Backyard
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (312+ words) Yellowstone National Park is home to the world’s most impressive geysers According to the United...
The Tonga Volcano Cleaned Up After Itself
5+ mon, 22+ hour ago (169+ words) of boats A conversation with an ecologist and a national security expert about the underappreciated risks...
How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (213+ words) Today’s T. rex auction could be cause for concern 2:00 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 Have you ever wanted to own a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton? The going rate is now over $50 million after Sotheby’s auction house sold “Gus,” a 38-foot long T....
Where Does Novelty Come From?
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (1063+ words) A conversation with paleobiologist Douglas Erwin about how novelty becomes true innovation in biological and cultural evolution 11:00 AM CDT on May 8, 2026 Erwin has written several popular books about transformative periods in evolutionary history, including the end-Permian mass extinction and the…...
Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums?
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (339+ words) The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question 5:07 PM CDT on July 14, 2026 This morning an as-yet unknown buyer paid a cool $50 million for one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found. $50,130,000 to be exact…...
Meet “The Last Titan,” Southeast Asia’s Most Massive Dinosaur
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (198+ words) Its femur was larger than most people 1:30 PM CDT on May 15, 2026 Around 100 million years ago, a long-necked giant stalked the warm, subtropical grasslands of prehistoric Thailand—and it may have been the last of its kind. An international team of…...
What Do You Do When You Lose Gigantic Megalodon Shark Vertebrae?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (335+ words) Megalodons were the apex predators of the Miocene seas 7:02 PM CDT on June 28, 2026 The largest shark to ever terrorize the oceans was the iconic megalodon, which popped up during the Miocene era roughly 15 million years ago. Clocking in at nearly…...
The Photos That Shaped Our Understanding of Earth’s Shape
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (175+ words) Science at the Ballot Box Women in Science & Engineering Visual evidence of our planet’s curvature is relatively recent The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading Over the following decades, advances in spaceflight gave us new views of Earth…...
The Dainty Dinosaur That’s Rewriting Evolutionary History
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (330+ words) New alvarezsaur fossil offers a Cretaceous missing link 5:30 PM CST on March 5, 2026 Alvarezsaurs were strange, small dinosaurs adapted to feed on ants and termites. Their stubby arms, powered by big chest muscles, ended in single thumb claws, suggesting a digging…...
Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (962+ words) And it helped kick‑start life on Earth 7:00 AM CDT on September 13, 2026 Some 550 million years ago, the Earth looked very different to what it does today. The Southern Hemisphere was dominated by an enormous, single continent known as Gondwana. This…...