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Oldest plant-like fossils discovered are 1.6 billion years old
The discovery suggests that plants and complex life on Earth are at least 400 million years older than previously thought
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The opposite birds: What wiped out the ancient rulers of the sky
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Ancestor of all vertebrates was a big mouth with no anus
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Giant flying reptile was top predator like a winged T. rex
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Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales
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Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several ‘wives’
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T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber
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Early hominin Lucy had powerful arms from years of tree-climbing
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Massive sea lizards once hunted plesiosaurs in Antarctica
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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain
The petrified specimen comes from a large plant eater such as Iguanodon, which lived about 133 million years ago, and whose brain was pickled in mud after it died
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The deer whose antlers spanned three-and-a-half metres
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Ancient bee fossil reveals secrets of human ancestor’s habitat
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Marsupial lion’s primate-like forearms made it a unique predator
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First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain
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