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Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
Backbones helped vertebrates conquer the oceans and move onto land. Now a study hints they may have evolved as protection against strong waves in shallow waters
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Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds
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World’s oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks
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Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob
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First snake found in amber is a baby from the age of the dinosaurs
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Asia鈥檚 mysterious role in the early origins of humanity
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Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?
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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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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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Yorkshire’s Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show
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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
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Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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