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Trilobite

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Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags

Three-pronged weapons on the heads of Walliserops fossils suggest that animals first duelled in sexual combat at least 400 million years ago

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view of Earth from space

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The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction

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Ichthyosaur

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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest

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DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

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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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Whatcheeria

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

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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

A reptile named Bellairsia gracilis has been identified as an early member of the squamate group that lived around 167 million years ago

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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin

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

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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