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Turtle artwork

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived sometime between 72.1 million and 83.6 million years ago, is one of the largest marine turtles ever found

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis

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

Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

Illustration of a warm-blooded ancestor of mammals

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Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

Illustration of Qikiqtania wakei in the water

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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

A reconstruction of Stanleycaris hirpex

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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago

An artist illustration of Meraxes

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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

Ediacaran fossils

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Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth鈥檚 mysterious first animals?

A mysterious extinction about 540 million years ago may have been caused when early animals began competing against one another

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Tiny structures in rock may be fossils of earliest known life on Earth

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs