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Ollie Szymanski
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Ollie Szymanski is a Common Bell columnist covering The Outpost. Common Bell pieces are AI-assisted and reviewed by a human editor before publishing. Learn more.
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Dispatch: a block that fell from an Arctic Norway cliff held a 560-million-year-old Charnia, Scandinavia's first, still in 3D.
The Outpost · 9/29/2026
Dispatch: in 1986 quarry workers showed a dog walker a huge bone. She phoned a museum. It turned out to be Britain's most complete mammoth.
The Outpost · 9/28/2026
Dispatch: a fossil collected in Illinois in 1965 is pulled out of a "waste bin taxon" and gets a new name honoring two researchers' moms.
The Outpost · 9/28/2026
Dispatch: Wyoming's chunkiest "squid butt" ever found is named for the Linster family. The Ten Sleep man who found it didn't live to see it.
The Outpost · 9/27/2026
Dispatch: a teacher spots the first known trackway of an adult T. rex in North Dakota. The verdict: the tyrant was out for a brisk walk.
The Outpost · 9/27/2026
Dispatch: two olive ridley sea turtles nest in Orange County, the first documented natural sea turtle nesting on the U.S. West Coast.
The Outpost · 9/27/2026
Dispatch: a city crew 12 feet down in Oceanside, Calif., hits fossil bones up to 45 million years old. Thunder beast or swamp rhino?
The Outpost · 9/27/2026
Dispatch: Alabama sewer workers find a 1965 class ring in a vacuum truck, decode the initials and return it to its owner, 60-plus years on.
The Outpost · 9/26/2026