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First snake found in amber is a baby from the age of the dinosaurs

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First snake found in amber is a baby from the age of the dinosaurs

Around 100 million years ago, this baby snake hatched on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean and then got stuck in resin oozing from a tree

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Asia’s mysterious role in the early origins of humanity

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Andy Serkis in Neanderthal make-up

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Can CGI finally convince us that Neanderthals were smart?

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

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Yorkshire's Jurassic World: David Attenborough opens new show

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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa

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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa

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Artist's impression of ancient arthropod and young

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Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

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The fossil finder who can't wait to return to war-torn Yemen

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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time

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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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