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palaeontology

Tiktaalik, an early fish that crawled on land

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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal's

Scans show that the spine and ribs of Tiktaalik, one of the first fish to crawl on land, had features that are more like those of early land animals than fish

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This is an artistic reconstruction of the Guiyang Biota. Guiyang Biota represents the oldest known Mesozoic lagerst?tte found so far. Guiyang Biota represents one of the earliest complete marine ecosystems after the great dying in Earth history. Guiyang Biota contains representatives of all trophic levels, especially abundant fish and decapod fossils, including about 1 m length coelacanths, and the earliest occurrences of lobsters and shrimps, extending the earliest record forward by 1.5 million years.

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

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Illustratoin of Ignacius dawsonae, a squirrel-like animal in a tree

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Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52 million years ago

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Fossil dinosaur egg

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Treasure trove of fossil eggs hints titanosaurs nested in colonies

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Trilobite

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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags

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view of Earth from space

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The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction

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Ichthyosaur

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest

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DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not immobile ones as biologists have long thought

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Fossil shows what lizards' ancestors looked like 167 million years ago

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