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fossil teeth

Humans

A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

Fossil incisors, canines, premolars and molars help pin down where we came from, but as Evolution's Bite shows, reading them is a tricky business

Culture

Dinosaur fossils

Life

Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK

Culture

Jaw from Jebel Irhoud

Humans

Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought

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Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

Earth

Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe

Life

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

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The Dresser formation

Life

3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea

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fossils

Life

The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's

Features

Medieval people mutilated the deceased to ward off zombies

Humans

Medieval people mutilated the deceased to ward off zombies

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Artist's impression of what Daspletosaurus horneri might have looked like

Life

Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout

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Life

Oldest plant-like fossils discovered are 1.6 billion years old

The discovery suggests that plants and complex life on Earth are at least 400 million years older than previously thought

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Life

The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky

Features

Life

Ancestor of all vertebrates was a big mouth with no anus

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Life

Giant flying reptile was top predator like a winged T. rex

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Life

Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales

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