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Ancient shark used its teeth like the blade of a power tool
The extinct shark Edestus used its teeth like saw blades, sliding them past each other like a power tool to slice through the soft flesh of its prey
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Mummified skin suggests duck-billed dinosaurs were grey like elephants
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Tiny T. rex fossils aren’t a new species – they are just teenagers
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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened
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Humans
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
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Cold-blooded mammals roamed Earth for tens of millions of years
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Fossilised microbes from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest yet found
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Dinosaurs go goth horror for unusual outing at London exhibition
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Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil
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Early whales swam doggy paddle across the ocean from India to Africa
Rare fossils of early whales show they may have swam doggy paddle style. It may not have been elegant, but they still managed to spread across vast oceans
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Military now controls Myanmar’s scientifically important amber mines
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Humans
We’ve finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors
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Earth
Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time
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World’s largest parrot was a metre tall and lived 19 million years ago
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