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Artistic reconstruction of Cretapsara athanata

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99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber

A 99-million-year-old crab trapped in amber might show us when the shelled animals moved into freshwater

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Look at fossils on your phone to help researchers uncover Earth’s past

Look at fossils on your phone to help researchers uncover Earth’s past

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The Mkhonjwa geotrail

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Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land

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Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus

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Microscopic tardigrade fossil found in 16-million-year-old amber

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Eosimias

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Tooth decay has been a problem for primates for 54 million years

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Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction.

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Half-metre-long predator was giant of the seas 500 million years ago

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Tupandactylus navigans

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Pterosaur had a head crest so tall it may have made it hard to fly

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The lost fossil meteorites carrying the secrets of Earth’s past

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The lost fossil meteorites carrying the secrets of Earth’s past

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Comb jelly

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Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern relatives

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fossil skeleton

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Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and now we know why

Fossil forensics and artificial intelligence have shed light on how multiple groups of large mammals died by a lake in what is now Spain 9 million years ago

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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago

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Baby pterosaurs could fly within minutes of hatching from their eggs

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Trilobite fossil shows it was attacked by a human-sized sea scorpion

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Ancient beetle species discovered in 230-million-year-old reptile dung

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