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Smilodon's teeth were impressive but injury-prone

Life

Sabre-toothed cats shared their food with injured pride members

Prehistoric sabre-toothed cats often injured their impressive jaws during hunts. Now fossil evidence suggests injured cats could rely on their peers for food

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Early fish

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Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones

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Archaeopteryx

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Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds

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Rocks in Greenland

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World's oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks

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Ediacaran fossil

Earth

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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First snake found in amber is a baby from the age of the dinosaurs

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skull

Humans

Asia’s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity

Features

Andy Serkis in Neanderthal make-up

Humans

Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?

Culture

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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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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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

Earth’s air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Life

Yorkshire's Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show

Culture

Humans

Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa

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Life

Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago

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