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A fossil foot bone showing signs of a malignant tumour

Health

Fossil tumour is oldest evidence of human cancer discovered yet

A 1.7 million year-old ancient human foot bone found in South Africa shows signs of osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer

Artist's impression of two T. rex chasing smaller dinosaurs

Life

T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose

petrified rock

Earth

Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

Gigantopithicus AW

Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

Diver surfaces as colleague standing above him holds large mastodon bone

Humans

First Americans hunted big game in Florida 14,500 years ago

White-headed Capuchin Monkey in Costa Rica

Environment

21-million-year-old fossil is North America’s first monkey

solar system

Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

Aquilonifer spinosus in false colour with several young tethered to either side of it

Environment

Extinct animal flew underwater kites made of its own young

fossil nervous system

Life

Exquisite fossils reveal oldest nervous system ever preserved