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A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years
The teeth of a man who lived in prehistoric Africa are worn in a way that suggests he had three facial piercings, the second oldest such find in the world
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The oldest fungi fossils have been identified in a Belgian museum
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AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought
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Ancient shark used its teeth like the blade of a power tool
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Mummified skin suggests duck-billed dinosaurs were grey like elephants
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Tiny T. rex fossils aren’t a new species – they are just teenagers
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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life鈥檚 big bang never happened
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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
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Cold-blooded mammals roamed Earth for tens of millions of years
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Fossilised microbes from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest yet found
Preserved microorganisms have been found encased in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks, confirming that single-celled life was thriving early in Earth鈥檚 history
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Dinosaurs go goth horror for unusual outing at London exhibition
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Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil
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Early whales swam doggy paddle across the ocean from India to Africa
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Military now controls Myanmar鈥檚 scientifically important amber mines
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