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Massive pliosaur skull sheds light on ancient sea reptile
The subject of a new David Attenborough documentary, a stunning pliosaur fossil unearthed in the UK is teaching us more about these deadly predators
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Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species 鈥� but not everyone agrees
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Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed
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Fossil footprints are the oldest traces of birds in Australia
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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction
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Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought
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Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clues to their evolution
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The Naked Neanderthal review: Looking for the real Neanderthals
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Ancient mini koala may help solve mystery of early marsupial evolution
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These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart
Was this perfect circle with a central depression drawn by our ancestors in the sand, around 136,000 years ago? Palaeontologist Charles Helm certainly thinks so
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Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna
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Cave of Bones review: Lee Berger on the discovery of Homo naledi
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Ancient whale might have been the heaviest animal that ever lived
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Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs three times their size
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