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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank

Elephants that lived on the island of Sicily lost more than 85 per cent of their body mass over a period of 350,000 years before going extinct around 19,000 years ago

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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean

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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean

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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves

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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves

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First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth

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Tiny toucan-like bird with a single tooth flew during the dinosaur era

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Tiny toucan-like bird with a single tooth flew during the dinosaur era

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Ancient footprints could be from a crocodile that walked on two legs

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Ancient footprints could be from a crocodile that walked on two legs

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Hollow tubes attacjed to Neobolous fossil

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Oldest known parasite is a worm-like animal from 512 million years ago

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Finding Britain's dinosaurs: Inside amazing fossil finds across the UK

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Finding Britain's dinosaurs: Inside amazing fossil finds across the UK

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

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Homo sapiens: Why did evolution favour the brainy ape?

Being intelligent has allowed our species to conquer the world. Mark Maslin explains why evolution favoured an unusually brainy ape.

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Monkeys made their way from Africa to South America at least twice

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

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

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

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