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palaeontology

Did the first flower look like this?

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What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

Some time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed – an enormous evolutionary study offers clues about its appearance

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

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

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

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

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

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Dinosaur skeletons

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First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

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oxygen bubbles

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Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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A round, smooth lump of amber in which a fossilised wing can be seen

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Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs

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Gigantopithicus AW

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Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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This may be the world's oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil

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This may be the world's oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil

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Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic

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Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic

The motion of an extinct marine reptile is being reconstructed thanks to a well-preserved fossil, computer simulations and a robotic replica

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Conference report: Vertebrate Palaeontology

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First fossil chimp

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Rogue finger gene got bats airborne

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Crouching predator

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