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Discovery photo of the mature Castanopsis fruiting spike fossil with four nuts enclosed in scaly cupules, showing the part and counterpart on the split surface at Laguna del Hunco.

Life

52-million-year-old fossils suggest oak relatives evolved in the south

A pair of 52 million-year old fossils discovered in Argentine Patagonia suggests that relatives of oak trees started life in the southern hemisphere, not the north

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dinosaur fossil

Life

Meet the Ghostbusters monster that could floor a tyrannosaur

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Technology

Working hypothesis: from buzzwords to Amazon workers

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Archaeopteryx

Life

The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined

Features

Skeletons: the frame of life

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Skeletons: the frame of life

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It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

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It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

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insect in amber

Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

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Humans

Major discovery suggests Denisovans lived in Tibet 160,000 years ago

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A diver with Protocyon jaw and vertebra

Life

Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico

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The Chimera crab had a mix of strange features

Life

‘Rule-breaking’ crab fossils have weird shrimp and lobster features

A newly-discovered type of crab from the Cretaceous period looks like it had the eyes of a larva, the mouth of a shrimp, and the carapace of a lobster

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Humans

Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?

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Life

Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed

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Humans

New species of human discovered in a cave in the Philippines

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Earth

Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

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