How To Fake A Fossil: Find Out More In Issue 36 Of CURIOUS

How To Fake A Fossil: Find Out More In Issue 36 Of CURIOUS – Out Now

Why can’t everybody sing well? Frog pregnancy tests? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

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CURIOUS Issue 36: How to fake a fossil — This issue's cover story: How to fake a fossil.
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Issue 36 (July 2025) of CURIOUS is out now, bringing you science highlights for the month plus deep dives into intriguing topics, interviews, exclusives, diary dates, and explanations for some of Earth’s most perplexing natural phenomena and landscapes.

Read Issue 36 of our digital magazine now by clicking below! Use the arrows to navigate or download the PDF for easy access.

In This Issue…

OUR COVER STORY: How To Fake A Fossil

How to separate prehistoric fact from carefully crafted fiction.

DEEP DIVE: Why Can’t Everybody Sing Well?

Is it something we’re born with, or can we teach ourselves to sing?

WE HAVE QUESTIONS: Frog Pregnancy Tests

People were finding out they were pregnant via frogs until the 1960s.

WHERE ON EARTH: Plain Of Jars

Thousands of mysterious megalithic stone jars, believed to have been used in ancient burial practices, adorn the landscape in central Laos.

Exclusive: Meet author Professor Sadiah Qureshi and read an excerpt from her new book Vanished: An Unnatural History Of Extinction.

Plus: News, diary dates, what to see, watch, and read this month, and much more.