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a partially excavated skull

Humans

Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

A 13-million-year-old skull found in Kenya provides the best evidence yet for the African origins of the ancient species that gave rise to all living apes

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Patagotitan mayorum replica

Earth

Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants

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Borealopelta markmitchelli fossil

Life

Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators

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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

Life

Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

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A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

Life

See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

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mammoth tusk

Life

See the 'tuskers' hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost

Regulars

mudskippers

Life

The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land

Features

Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano

Earth

Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints

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fossil teeth

Humans

A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

Culture

Dinosaur fossils

Life

Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK

A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world-exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs

Culture

Humans

Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought

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Earth

Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found

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Life

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

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Life

3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea

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