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Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than we thought
The oldest fossil flowers we have found are about 135 million years old, but a statistical analysis suggests flowering plants evolved as early as 250 million years ago
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Environment
Strange fossil is the first to show an ammonite without its shell
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Life
Megalodon sharks grew 2 metres long in the uterus by eating eggs
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Life
Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo
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Life
Ancient reptile looked like a cross between a dolphin and a shark
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Life
Giant seal fossil found in New Zealand hints they evolved in the south
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Earth
Ammonite review: Here’s the true story of palaeontologist Mary Anning
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Life
Extraordinary fossil shows ancient marine reptile swallowing huge prey
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Life
Trilobites living 429 million years ago had eyes like modern insects
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Life
Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter
Tanystropheus had a neck three times the length of its body, and a new analysis of its skull suggests it lived in the sea, where it ambushed prey
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Life
Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time
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Fossils
Life
Fossil cells with ‘tails’ may have been moving 3.4 billion years ago
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Life
The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought
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