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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame
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Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant
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Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true
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Young ‘dinosauromorphs’ may have begged for food like baby birds
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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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We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years
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The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution
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Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved
Microscopic fossil burrows found in ancient rocks reveal that small worm-like animals existed more than half a billion years ago
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What the first flower on Earth might have looked like
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Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
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The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
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Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout
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