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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
Earth鈥檚 air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms
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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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Yorkshire’s Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show
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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
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Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen
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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time
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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
The 260,000-year-old Dali skull was found in China, but it looks a lot like the earliest known members of our species 鈥� which were found in Africa
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What the controversial 鈥榟uman鈥� teeth fossils really tell us
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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
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The mass extinction that might never have happened
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