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The Dinosaur Whose Skin Turned to Stone

A teenager spotted a few tail bones in North Dakota sandstone. What came out of the ground had fossilized skin, toe pads, and clues to a dinosaur mystery scientists are still solving.

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Editorial illustration of a rotating storm beyond a 1950s prairie neighborhood.Editorial illustration
Weather & Science11 minutes

The Night Fargo Helped Teach the World to Read a Tornado

In 1957, a lone Weather Bureau observer watched a black cone cross the prairie toward Fargo. The warning he improvised and the photographs residents made would become part of meteorological history.

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