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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
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We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years
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The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution
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Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved
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What the first flower on Earth might have looked like
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Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
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The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
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Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout
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First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere
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Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago
High levels of oceanic oxygen could聽have allowed advanced, animal-like life to develop for the first time 鈥� only to be wiped out again as oxygen vanished
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Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs
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Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes
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This may be the world’s oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil
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Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic
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