Bone
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Politics
An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.
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World
Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Carried a Terrible Disease in Their Bones
Researchers say that evidence of osteochondrosis dissecans in the ice age predators offers insights to how they went extinct.
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Arts
Learning to Hear What the Dead Have to Say
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina — and what such work means for the families of victims.
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World
Mammoth Tusks in the East River? How Joe Rogan Started a ‘Bone Rush.’
After a podcast guest claimed that tons of prehistoric remains were dumped decades ago, scuba divers suited up. But the truth, like the water, is as murky.
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World
Illuminating a Forgotten History
An artist’s new short film, “shadow bone,” uncovers buried colonial truths.
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Arts
The Dinosaur Bone Market Is Booming. It Also Has Growing Pains.
HULETT, Wyo. — Crouching over a snow-dusted quarry that moonlights as a fossil hunting ground, Peter Larson pointed to a weathered four-inch slab ...