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Healed fang wound found on 520-million-year-old apex predator
Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well be cannibalism
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Mammal ancestors were giving birth to live young 236 million years ago
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Getting up close with the fiercest ocean predators that ever lived
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Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile
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A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right
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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia
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The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn’t the king of the dinosaurs
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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
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Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken
The alvarezsaurs were thought to have evolved a smaller stature because of their diet of ants and termites, but a new fossil found in Argentina casts doubt on that theory
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New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs
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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised
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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem
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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes
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