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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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The Xiamaling Formation in China, which contains fossilised algae from primeval times. Credit: © Don E. Canfield
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A new look at evolution in the oceans

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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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Fungi sample, hypha and sphere in a drill core sample from 540 m depth in the Siljan impact structure, scanning electron microscope image (width ~70 µm). Credit Henrik Drake.
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Europe’s largest meteorite crater – home to deep ancient fungi

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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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These fossil ammonites have lost their outer coating of shell, revealing the iridescent nacre beneath. Now extinct, ammonites were a group of marine mollusks that first appeared about 409 million years ago, persisting until the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Jeff Gage
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Rise of marine predators reshaped ocean life as dramatically as mass...

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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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The asteroid impact led to the extinction of 75% of life, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Credit: Willgard Krause/Pixabay.
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Asteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction

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1.2 million year old mammoth tooth from the Krestovka mammoth. Credit: Pavel Nikolskiy
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World’s oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved

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Swamp Skink (Lissolepis coventryi), which is probably the living lizard most similar to the new fossil. Photo: Dr Mark Hutchinson, SA Museum / Flinders University, a co-author. Credit: Dr Mark Hutchinson, SA Museum / Flinders University
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Proegernia mikebulli : New Australian fossil lizard

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The comet that killed the dinosaurs

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The songs of fin whales offer new avenue for seismic studies...

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Photos of Nubian Levallois cores associated with Neanderthal fossils. Credit © UCL, Institute of Archaeology & courtesy of the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania
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Neanderthals and Homo sapiens used identical Nubian technology

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Several types of dinoflagellates are shown in this microscope image. Some dinoflagellates are classified as nanoplankton, which new research shows have a more important role in Earth’s biological pump than previously thought. Credit: fickleandfreckled, CC BY 2.0
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The Role of Midsized Phytoplankton in Earth’s Biological Pump

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Professor Cathryn Newton studies Middle Devonian marine faunas (such as these brachiopods from 380-390 million years ago), whose fossils are lodged in a unit of bedrock in Central New York. Credit: Syracuse University
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Diving into Devonian seas: Ancient marine faunas unlock secrets of warming...

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The newly named trace fossil Glossifungites gingrasi is a collection of burrows that were home to water-dwelling insects, similar to mayflies, more than 90 million years ago. (Photo: Ryan King)
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Newly discovered fossil, likely subaqueous insect

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