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A story in the November 2017 issue documented new discoveries about pterosaurs. In this photo, a life-sized model of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, gets a coat of paint in a Minnesota studio.
The Gokstad ship was built around 890AD, and like many of Viking ships of the time, served as a burial tomb. Painstakingly restored, it is now held by the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.
Vitaly Napadow, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, studies how the brain perceives pain. To do that, he uses electroencephalography to track the brain wave patterns of patients with chronic lower back pain.
Scientists have only just begun to unlock the many secrets of the Rising Star cave system—and they're excited about what else might be left to discover.
The cave’s Dinaledi chamber contains the remains of at least 15 Homo naledi, one of which is shown in a composite skeleton above.
Anthropologist Marina Elliott sits at the entrance of South Africa's Rising Star cave system. Her team discovered the newfound remains in a remote passage deep in the cave's twisting network of tunnels.
Three-toed dinosaur fossil tracks show where Limayichnus major once roamed in southern Argentina. This picture originally appeared in the December 1997 issue, in a story following a group of paleontologists working to find Patagonia's dinosaurs.
Three-toed dinosaur fossil tracks show where Limayichnus major once roamed in southern Argentina. This picture originally appeared in the December 1997 issue, in a story following a group of palaeontologists working to find Patagonia's dinosaurs.
Tollund Man was hanged with a leather noose and cast into a Danish bog some 2,400 years ago.
An October 2007 story examined the industry of biofuels. This photo shows bags of algae hanging outside of a power plant near Phoenix, Arizona. At the time, researchers planned for the green scum, fed by power plant exhaust, to soak up carbon dioxide while cranking out thousands of gallons of biodiesel each year.