Life
Life may have begun millions of years earlier than we thought
Two major studies argue that life arose on Earth very soon after it formed, but both have already come in for heavy criticism
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Life
Ancient ‘sea woodlice’ had surprisingly complicated guts
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Humans
Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils
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Humans
The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution
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Life
Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish
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Environment
Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved
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Humans
Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa
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Humans
Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor
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Earth
Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants
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Life
Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators
The world’s most impressively preserved dinosaur fossil reveals that the 5.5-metre-long Borealopelta had camouflage despite its heavy armour
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Environment
Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils
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Life
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
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Environment
The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land
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Environment
See the ‘tuskers’ hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost
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