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I've always thought it would be amazingly cool to witness a supernova. Imagine it.  Within a few hours, a dim, ordinary-looking star i...

You're not alone if you immediately think "Africa" when you hear the word "rhinoceros."  The two largest and best-kn...

If there's one piece of advice I have for anyone trying to stay informed, it is: check your sources. Unfortunately, these days, that t...

I was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic home, but after spending my teenage years feeling question after question bubbling up inside me, I...

Mexican free-tailed bats ( Tadarida brasiliensis ) are remarkable animals.  They live in staggeringly huge colonies.  The largest known, in...

Rounding out Paleontology Week is a story courtesy of my friend and long-time loyal reader of Skeptophilia , the brilliant novelist Tyler To...

Continuing with the paleontological bent we've been on all week, today we have: bones of a previously-unknown tyrannosaur on a beach in ...