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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small
After the extinction of the dinosaurs, mammals took over and had room to evolve larger bodies, but their brains remained small to begin with
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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs
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Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found
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UK鈥檚 largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator
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Spider fossil sheds light on Australia鈥檚 ancient rainforest ecosystem
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Prehistoric ichthyosaurs evolved rapidly to be as big as whales
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Fossil of the largest millipede that ever lived found on English beach
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Dinosaur-era swamp ecosystem preserved in amber
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![Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/23130516/PRI_211648445.jpg?w=300&h=225&crop=1)
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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal
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Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago
More than half a billion years ago, tiny penis worms had learned to protect themselves by grabbing and living inside snail-like shells, like hermit crabs do today
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Dinosaurs lived in herds 40 million years earlier than we thought
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99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber
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Look at fossils on your phone to help researchers uncover Earth鈥檚 past
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Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land
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