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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Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Earth’s air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms
Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
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A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame
Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity's path out of Africa
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A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa
This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
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A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction
Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved
11 September 2017
Microscopic fossil burrows found in ancient rocks reveal that small worm-like animals existed more than half a billion years ago
The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land
19 July 2017
New fossils and a fresh perspective are transforming our picture of a great evolutionary transition – how fish-like creatures swapped fins for limbs
Chinese dinosaurs make a historic trip to the UK
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A small Nottingham museum offers a big frisson for fossils fans, with a world-exclusive showing of key finds that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs
Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa
22 May 2017
The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Greece
