Fossil Saber-toothed Cat

Thanks to the La Brea pits, we have a really good idea of what saber-toothed cats looked like.

Well, their insides, anyway.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Fossil Bugs

Some people spend days painstakingly cleaning the tar off ancient beetles just to have museum visitors look at them and say “Oh. Bugs.”

This is where mad scientists come from.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.