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  1. Paleontology

    An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas

    A group of crocs, or at least one pregnant female, may have made a transatlantic journey millions of years ago to colonize new land.

    By Carolyn Wilke
  2. Archaeology

    Stone artifacts hint that humans reached the Americas surprisingly early

    Finds uncovered in a Mexican cave suggest North America may have had human inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago — way before archaeologists thought.

    By Maria Temming
  3. Astronomy

    This is the first picture of a sunlike star with multiple exoplanets

    A first family portrait reveals a weird cousin of the solar system: a star about the mass of the sun orbited — distantly — by two massive gas giants.