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

1 May 2019

The first Denisovan remains discovered outside Siberia suggest our extinct cousins lived at extreme altitude in Tibet long before our species made it there
The Chimera crab had a mix of strange features

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

24 April 2019

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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