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Squid-like creature that looked like a giant paperclip lived 200 years

4 November 2020

An ancient squid-like animal with a shell like a 1.5-metre-long paperclip may have lived to be 200 years old
A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

30 April 2018

A plant fossil that lay unnoticed for a century is unexpectedly large for something so old, and it could upend our ideas about the evolution of land plants

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