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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis

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Fossil shows what lizards' ancestors looked like 167 million years ago

A reptile named Bellairsia gracilis has been identified as an early member of the squamate group that lived around 167 million years ago

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Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

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panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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Illustration of a warm-blooded ancestor of mammals

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Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

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Illustration of Qikiqtania wakei in the water

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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

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A reconstruction of Stanleycaris hirpex

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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago

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An artist illustration of Meraxes

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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

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Ediacaran fossils

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Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth’s mysterious first animals?

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early fossils

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Tiny structures in rock may be fossils of earliest known life on Earth

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

A set of ancient footprints seems to show children splashing around in water that had pooled in tracks left by a now-extinct ground sloth

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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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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’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator

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