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Pterosaur had a head crest so tall it may have made it hard to fly
A 100-million-year-old fossil belongs to a strange pterosaur with a 50-centimetre-tall head crest that would have made it difficult for the winged reptile to fly
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The lost fossil meteorites carrying the secrets of Earth’s past
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Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern relatives
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Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and now we know why
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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago
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Baby pterosaurs could fly within minutes of hatching from their eggs
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Trilobite fossil shows it was attacked by a human-sized sea scorpion
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Ancient beetle species discovered in 230-million-year-old reptile dung
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Giant rhino unearthed in China was one of largest mammals ever to live
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Some early land-dwelling amphibians evolved back into aquatic species
By 340 million years ago, our ancient fish-like ancestors had evolved to walk on land – but within about 10 million years, some of them had adapted to an aquatic life again
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Fossils of extinct plants reveal origins of today’s flowering species
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58-million-year-old footprints show when mammals began paddling in sea
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Billion-year-old microbe had taken first step towards internal organs
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest
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