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Ediacaran fossils

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Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth’s mysterious first animals?

A mysterious extinction about 540 million years ago may have been caused when early animals began competing against one another

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early fossils

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Tiny structures in rock may be fossils of earliest known life on Earth

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

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Ancient mammal skulls

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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Nagini mazonense

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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs

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Skye Pterosaur

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Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found

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Palaeontologists working on the Ichthyosaur

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UK’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator

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Image of a mygalomorph spider

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Spider fossil sheds light on Australia’s ancient rainforest ecosystem

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ichthyosaur reconstruction

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Prehistoric ichthyosaurs evolved rapidly to be as big as whales

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Reconstruction of the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived in the Carboniferous period, 326 million years ago

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Fossil of the largest millipede that ever lived found on English beach

Arthropleura was the largest millipede ever to live, and palaeontologists have just found the fossilised remains of the longest specimen yet on a beach in northern England

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Dinosaur-era swamp ecosystem preserved in amber

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New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal

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Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago

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Dinosaurs lived in herds 40 million years earlier than we thought

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