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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils
About 540 million years ago a group of jellyfish washed ashore, died and fossilised – preserving evidence of the earliest example of an animal mass death event
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Life
See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands
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The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land
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See the ‘tuskers’ hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost
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Earth
Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints
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Humans
A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past
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Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK
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Humans
Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought
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Earth
Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found
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Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Greece
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3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea
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Life
The heretical passion of the man who first described Parkinson’s
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Humans
Medieval people mutilated the deceased to ward off zombies
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Life
Weird T. rex forerunner had small horns and crocodile-like snout
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