Life
Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar
A huge number of finds in newly mined amber are rewriting what we know about the age of the dinosaurs. But getting hold of them may come at a terrible human price
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Life
It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber
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Life
Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico
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Technology
The mighty T. rex comes to terrifying life, complete with feathers
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Earth
Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions
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Life
Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk
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Life
Steve Brusatte: The rise and fall of the dinosaurs
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Environment
A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land
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Earth
Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Earth
Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame
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Environment
Dinobird Archaeopteryx only flew in short bursts like a pheasant
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Humans
Ancient ‘dark-skinned’ Briton Cheddar Man find may not be true
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Environment
Young ‘dinosauromorphs’ may have begged for food like baby birds
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Humans
The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen
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