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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

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Ella Al-Shamahi

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The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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Dali skull

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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The mass extinction that might never have happened

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Dimetrodon

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We’ve drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

Dimetrodon, one of the most recognisable of the pre-dinosaur predators, might not actually have crawled across the ground as it’s usually depicted

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Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut

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Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought

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Ancient ‘sea woodlice’ had surprisingly complicated guts

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