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Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate
Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate
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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?
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Dome-headed dinosaur from Mongolia is the oldest ever found
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Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey
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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans
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Ancient animal’s fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution
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A closer look at Enigmacursor, the newly discovered dinosaur species
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Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact
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Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species
Enigmacursor darted around North America in the Late Jurassic 145-150 million years ago and its skeleton is now on display in London’s Natural History Museum
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Denisovan fossil from Taiwan gives clue to mysterious ancient humans
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Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit
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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
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Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to eat leaves
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