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Extinct lizard was a bizarrely supersized version of modern skinks

Tiliqua frangens, a giant, armoured skink that lived over 40,000 years ago, is the latest bizarre megafauna species to be discovered in Australia

Tam P脿 Ling cave in northern Laos, where several human fossils dating back tens of thousands of years have been found

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Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago

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Ancient mass extinction may have driven millipedes to eat meat

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Broad-nosed ancient shark was one of earliest fish to smell in stereo

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Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved before mass extinction

Caption: New fossils of Protomelission from the Xiaoshiba biota, showing attachment of the alga to a brachiopod shell. Credit: Zhang Xiguang

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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

This is an artistic reconstruction of the Guiyang Biota. Guiyang Biota represents the oldest known Mesozoic lagerst?tte found so far. Guiyang Biota represents one of the earliest complete marine ecosystems after the great dying in Earth history. Guiyang Biota contains representatives of all trophic levels, especially abundant fish and decapod fossils, including about 1 m length coelacanths, and the earliest occurrences of lobsters and shrimps, extending the earliest record forward by 1.5 million years.

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Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags

Fossil flower trapped in Baltic amber

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Largest flower found in amber was frozen in time millions of years ago

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Musuem of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East Wing.

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Remnants of Ancient Life review: Explore the palaeobiology revolution

Dale Greenwalt's book is a gripping look at palaeobiology, a field achieving incredible insights into ancient life on Earth

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long