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Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk

A robotic version of a four-legged animal that lived 290 million years ago suggests it had an efficient walking style despite spending some of its life in water

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Steve Brusatte: The rise and fall of the dinosaurs

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Steve Brusatte: The rise and fall of the dinosaurs

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

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Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

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Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

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Ancient 'dark-skinned' Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

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Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

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Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

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

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

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

The strange Ediacarans were some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth. They are thought to have died out 540 million years ago but eight odd fossils suggest they survived far longer

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

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

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The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

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Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

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