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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago
A set of ancient footprints seems to show children splashing around in water that had pooled in tracks left by a now-extinct ground sloth
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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small
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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs
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Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found
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UK’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator
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Spider fossil sheds light on Australia’s ancient rainforest ecosystem
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Prehistoric ichthyosaurs evolved rapidly to be as big as whales
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Fossil of the largest millipede that ever lived found on English beach
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Dinosaur-era swamp ecosystem preserved in amber
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![Australopithecus sediba silhouette showing the newly-found vertebrae along with other skeletal remains from the species. The enlarged detail (a photograph of the fossils in articulation on the left; micro-computed tomography models on the right) shows the newly discovered fossils, in colour on the right between previously known elements in grey. Right: Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba com-missioned by the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. [? Sculpture: Elisabeth Daynes / Photograph: S. Entres?sangle]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/23130516/PRI_211648445.jpg?w=1024&h=768&crop=1)
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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal
The discovery of new Australopithecus sediba fossils mean we can now reconstruct most of the spine of one individual, and strengthen the case that the species was bipedal at least some of the time
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Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago
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Dinosaurs lived in herds 40 million years earlier than we thought
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99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber
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Look at fossils on your phone to help researchers uncover Earth’s past
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