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palaeontology

Whatcheeria

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt – a trait that was thought to have evolved later

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Turtle artwork

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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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

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Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus

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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin

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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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Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right).

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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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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

Stanleycaris hirpex, which lived in the Cambrian period, had two protruding eyes on the side of its head and a larger eye in the centre

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

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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight

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There are things we will never know about dinosaurs – here's why

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Some of the earliest complex animals were fossilised in a river delta

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