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Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

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Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.
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Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

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Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau
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The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

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Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.
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Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

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Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang
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Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

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Uskiella spargen a small plant whose axes divide several times before bearing oval sporangia. Credit : Cyrille Prestianni
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Discovery of the oldest plant fossils on the African continent!

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Early lineages of mammal like this large Gobiconodon from Mongolia, outcompeted the ancestors of modern mammals in the time of dinosaurs. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt
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Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back

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A cross-section of an 18.5 million-year-old fossil of Ampelorhiza heteroxylon. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided
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18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species

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Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)
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What can a dinosaur’s inner ear tell us? Just listen

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The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans represents the starting point of human and chimpanzee evolution. Fossil apes play an essential role when it comes to reconstructing the nature of our ape ancestry. Printed with permission from © Christopher M. Smith
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Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils

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An enhanced image of Bicellum showing an outer wall of sausage-shaped cells enclosing an inner cell mass. Credit: Boston College
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Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be a new insight into...

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"Hollywood" specimen, same species as Teratophoneus, discovered approximately two miles north of the "Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry" on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study shows

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Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum.
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Fossils of ‘giant cloud rats’ discovered in Philippine caves

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Rafinesquina, seen in this close-up shot, was an ancient genus of brachiopod belonging to order Strophomenida. This order survived two mass extinction events, but the second represented a ‘death sentence’ from which they were unable to recover diversity, persisting for another hundred million years as a ‘dead clade walking’ before their eventual extinction. IMAGE: Provided by Benjamin Barnes
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New insights into mass extinctions

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Over approximately 2.5 million years, North America likely hosted 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes, a minuscule proportion of which have been dug up and studied by paleontologists, according to a UC Berkeley study. (Image by Julius Csotonyi, courtesy of Science magazine)
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How many T. rexes were there? Billions

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The world's smallest stegosaur footprint (less than 6 cm long), Xingjiang, China. Photo credit - Lida Xing.
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Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

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Adzebills, also close relatives of cave-rails, were large, flightless birds with big beaks that could have been used to prey on small animals or strip vegetation. Illustration courtesy of Nobu Tamura, CC BY 3.0
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Extinct Caribbean bird’s closest relatives hail from Africa, South Pacific

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Skeletons of four tyrannosaurid specimens tested in the study. Clockwise from above left: adult Tyrannosaurus rex “Sue” (FMNH PR 2081) (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; photo by the Field Museum), juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex “Jane” (BMRP 2002.4.1) (Burpee Museum of Natural History; photo by A. Rowe), adult Tarbosaurus bataar (Dinosaurium exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic; photo by R. Holiš) and Raptorex kriegsteini skeletal reconstruction (LH PV18) (Long Hao Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China; photo by P. Sereno). Credit: Listed in caption. Final image by Andre Rowe
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Younger Tyrannosaurus Rex bites were less ferocious than their adult counterparts

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Fossil of Dickinsonia, an Ediacaran-era animal. (Mary Droser/UCR)
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Research shows we’re surprisingly similar to Earth’s first animals

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Reconstruction of the crown of Paratingia wuhaia sp. nov.
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‘Pompeii of prehistoric plants’ unlocks evolutionary secret

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