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fossils

caterpillar

Life

Ancient caterpillar had armoured spikes to protect it from early birds

A fossil caterpillar from 100 million years ago was equipped with defensive spines, making it the first known armoured caterpillar from the dinosaur era

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flowers

Life

Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than we thought

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A fossil of an ammonite without its shell

Environment

Strange fossil is the first to show an ammonite without its shell

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megalodon

Life

Megalodon sharks grew 2 metres long in the uterus by eating eggs

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Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

Life

Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

Features

Thalassodraco etchesi

Life

Ancient reptile looked like a cross between a dolphin and a shark

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Eomonachus belegaerensis

Life

Giant seal fossil found in New Zealand hints they evolved in the south

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Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan

Earth

Ammonite review: Here's the true story of palaeontologist Mary Anning

Culture

ichthyosaur

Life

Extraordinary fossil shows ancient marine reptile swallowing huge prey

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crustacean

Life

Trilobites living 429 million years ago had eyes like modern insects

A compound eye almost identical to those of modern bees and dragonflies has been found in a fossil trilobite that lived on the seabed 429 million years ago

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Life

Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter

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Life

Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time

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Definition

Fossils

Life

Fossil cells with 'tails' may have been moving 3.4 billion years ago

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