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Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant

The bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx could flap its wings to fly, but only for short bursts 鈥� like a modern pheasant flapping to escape danger

Reconstruction of Cheddar Man's head and shoulders

Humans

Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true

Environment

Young ‘dinosauromorphs’ may have begged for food like baby birds

Ella Al-Shamahi

Humans

The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen

Life

Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

Environment

This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

Dimetrodon

Life

We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

Berger 1

Humans

The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution

Fossilised worm holes

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

Did the first flower look like this?

Environment

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

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

Environment

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

Life

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

Life

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

Life

First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere