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Artist's impression of ancient arthropod and young

Life

Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago

Rare remains show a primitive shrimp-like creature apparently caring for four juveniles – the oldest example of parental care in the fossil record

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

Life

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Features

Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

Life

Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

Life

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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Dali skull

Humans

Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

Humans

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Life

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

Earth

The mass extinction that might never have happened

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

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Life

We’ve drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

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Life

Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut

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Life

Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought

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