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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants
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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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Yorkshire’s Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show
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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
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Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen
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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time
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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
A nearly complete skeleton of an early long-necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us
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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
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