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Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

Humans

Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

This week, listen as Reply All goes down the internet rabbit hole, watch the second series of Netflix's Altered Carbon, and ponder what fossils our culture will leave for the far future

Culture

Life

Prehistoric giant turtle shell is the biggest ever found

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Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells

Life

Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells

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The smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossil that seemed too good to be true

Life

The smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossil that seemed too good to be true

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Fossil teeth

Humans

A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years

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Fungi fossil

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The oldest fungi fossils have been identified in a Belgian museum

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AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought

Life

AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought

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Reconstruction of edestus

Life

Ancient shark used its teeth like the blade of a power tool

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dinosaur

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Mummified skin suggests duck-billed dinosaurs were grey like elephants

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juvenile T rex

Life

Tiny T. rex fossils aren't a new species - they are just teenagers

A handful of unusually small tyrannosaur fossils are not evidence of a new species – they simply show us what adolescent T. rexes looked like

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Humans

Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

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Life

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Life

Cold-blooded mammals roamed Earth for tens of millions of years

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Life

Fossilised microbes from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest yet found

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