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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago
Stanleycaris hirpex, which lived in the Cambrian period, had two protruding eyes on the side of its head and a larger eye in the centre
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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
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Some of the earliest complex animals were fossilised in a river delta
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A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age
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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth’s mantle
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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species
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New human species has been named Homo bodoensis – but it may not stick
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Some ancient giant ground sloths dined on meat
Ground sloths are often depicted as herbivorous giants of the ice age, but a fresh analysis suggests a 3-metre-long species that once lived in South America also ate some meat
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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs
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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago
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Baby pterosaurs could fly within minutes of hatching from their eggs
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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank
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