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fossils

flowers

Life

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

News

A fossil of an ammonite without its shell

Environment

Strange fossil is the first to show an ammonite without its shell

News

megalodon

Life

Megalodon sharks grew 2 metres long in the uterus by eating eggs

News

Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

Life

Scat scans: How lasers are teasing secrets from ancient poo

Features

Thalassodraco etchesi

Life

Ancient reptile looked like a cross between a dolphin and a shark

News

Eomonachus belegaerensis

Life

Giant seal fossil found in New Zealand hints they evolved in the south

News

Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan

Earth

Ammonite review: Here's the true story of palaeontologist Mary Anning

Culture

ichthyosaur

Life

Extraordinary fossil shows ancient marine reptile swallowing huge prey

News

crustacean

Life

Trilobites living 429 million years ago had eyes like modern insects

News

Long-necked fossil Tanystropheus

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

News

Life

Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time

News

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Fossils

Life

Fossil cells with 'tails' may have been moving 3.4 billion years ago

News

Life

The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought

Features

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