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The 'Cambrian explosion' saw the emergence of many animals we recognise today

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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth's mantle

The Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago saw a huge variety of animals evolve – and also led to carbon being buried in the seabed and ultimately carried into the planet’s mantle

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View of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), a large natural history museum containing the skeleton of the Tyrannosaur

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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species

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Homo bodoensis, a new species of human ancestor, lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.

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New human species has been named Homo bodoensis - but it may not stick

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Reconstruction of the South American giant ground sloth Mylodon darwinii feeding on carcass

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Some ancient giant ground sloths dined on meat

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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs

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Microscopic calcite structures reveal the protein skeleton of an ancient sponge

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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

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pterosaurs flying

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Baby pterosaurs could fly within minutes of hatching from their eggs

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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean

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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean

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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves

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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves

A group of tyrannosaur fossils found in Utah were a family of dinosaurs that died together in a flood, which adds to evidence these animals may have lived and hunted together in packs

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First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth

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Tiny toucan-like bird with a single tooth flew during the dinosaur era

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Ancient footprints could be from a crocodile that walked on two legs

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