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If visitors to our planet in millions of years found fossils of a Homo sapiens and another great ape in an elaborate tomb, would they be able to prove which one built it?

Tom Frost,

Brisbane, Australia

How did marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs breathe?

Andrew Hawkins,

Peaslake, Surrey, UK

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