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fossils

Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

Life

Meet a 500-million-year old minibeast from the Cambrian explosion

More than half a billion years ago, this predator cruised the seas in what is now Yunnan, China. The remarkable fossil is on display in a new exhibition

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The dinosaur and its stomach contents

Life

Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur's stomach

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Perito Moreno glacier

Environment

Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming

Features

reconstruction of ancient bird

Life

Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe

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iguanodon

Life

How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science

Culture

pterosaurs

Life

Baby pterosaurs may have hatched ready to fly right out of the egg

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Discovery photo of the mature Castanopsis fruiting spike fossil with four nuts enclosed in scaly cupules, showing the part and counterpart on the split surface at Laguna del Hunco.

Life

52-million-year-old fossils suggest oak relatives evolved in the south

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dinosaur fossil

Life

Meet the Ghostbusters monster that could floor a tyrannosaur

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Technology

Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers

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Archaeopteryx

Life

The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined

Winged Jurassic dinosaur Archaeopteryx was more than just an early ancestor of birds – fossils reveal it was an evolutionary wonder akin to Darwin's finches

Features

Video

Skeletons: the frame of life

Video

Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

Features

Life

It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

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Humans

Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago

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