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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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Berger 1

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The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

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Fossilised worm holes

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

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Did the first flower look like this?

Life

What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

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Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe

Life

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

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fossils

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The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson's

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Artist's impression of what Daspletosaurus horneri might have looked like

Life

Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout

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Dinosaur skeletons

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First dinosaurs may have been omnivores in the north hemisphere

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oxygen bubbles

Earth

Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago

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A round, smooth lump of amber in which a fossilised wing can be seen

Life

Beautifully preserved feathers belonged to tiny flying dinosaurs

Detailed amber fossils of wings from dinosaurs just 3.5 centimetres long suggest they flew like today’s birds. Such finds let us probe how flight evolved

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Life

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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Earth

This may be the world's oldest Jurassic dinosaur fossil

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Life

Plesiosaur X-ray helps create swimming robot mimic

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Conference report: Vertebrate Palaeontology

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