Taylor Mitchell Brown

All Stories by Taylor Mitchell Brown

  1. Paleontology

    An ancient reptile’s fossilized skin reveals how it swam like a seal

    A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.

  2. Archaeology

    Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own

    An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.