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Oldest proteins yet recovered from 18-million-year-old teeth

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing the remains belonged to the ancient ancestors of rhinoceroses and elephants

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Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

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Enigmacursor dinosaur in conservation

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A closer look at Enigmacursor, the newly discovered dinosaur species

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Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact

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Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species

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Sauropod dinosaur's last meal reveals that it didn't bother to chew

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Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

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Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit

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Scientists perform a necropsy on the 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed

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Scientists perform necropsy on baby woolly mammoth

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Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies

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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago

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Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to eat leaves

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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like

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Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in rock at Australian school

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Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other

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