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Ancient ‘sea woodlice’ had surprisingly complicated guts

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Ancient ‘sea woodlice’ had surprisingly complicated guts

Fossil trilobites dating back to the dawn of animal evolution had unexpectedly complex and varied digestive systems, hinting that they ate varied and hard-to-digest food

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

Humans

Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Berger 1

Life

The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

Features

Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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Fossilised worm holes

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

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Picture showing one of the footprints discovered on a Greek island

Humans

Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

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a partially excavated skull

Humans

Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

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Patagotitan mayorum replica

Earth

Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants

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Borealopelta markmitchelli fossil

Life

Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators

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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

About 540 million years ago a group of jellyfish washed ashore, died and fossilised – preserving evidence of the earliest example of an animal mass death event

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Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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Life

The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land

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Life

See the 'tuskers' hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost

Regulars

Earth

Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints

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