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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived around 150 million years ago and had a short tail like those of modern birds

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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales

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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird

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Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia

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Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery

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Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum Credit: Sutton et al. Nature (2025)

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Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

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Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs’ rise to power

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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A fossil of the extinct tadpole species Notobatrachus degiustoi in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

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Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

This claustrophobia-inducing image is taken from photographer Martin Broen's new book Light in the Underworld, a collection of shots from the Yucat谩n鈥檚 cenotes, or sinkholes

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Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

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Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world

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Early humans began wiping out elephant relatives 1.8 million years ago

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