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Fossil flower trapped in Baltic amber

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Largest flower found in amber was frozen in time millions of years ago

This beautiful flower was trapped in amber between 33 million and 38 million years ago, preserving it in exquisite detail

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A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Musuem of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East Wing.

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Remnants of Ancient Life review: Explore the palaeobiology revolution

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Ichthyosaur

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Army ant embedded in amber

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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

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Turtle artwork

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis

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Fossil shows what lizards' ancestors looked like 167 million years ago

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Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

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panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

A peace agreement in Colombia meant researchers could return to the site where a sauropod fossil was dug up in 1943 and name it as a new species, Perijasaurus lapaz

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Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago

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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

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