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Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other researchers believe it is probably a fake

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Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

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Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum Credit: Sutton et al. Nature (2025)

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Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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Worm-like fossil is the oldest ancestor of spiders and crustaceans

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A fossil of the extinct tadpole species Notobatrachus degiustoi in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

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Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

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Cave diver explores a Mexican sinkhole in atmospheric photograph

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Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia

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A colourised, microscopic image of a 4.4 billion-year-old zircon

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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

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Donald Johanson excavating Lucy

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Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world

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Early humans began wiping out elephant relatives 1.8 million years ago

Elephant-like species started going extinct faster when early humans evolved, and the rate of extinction rose even higher when modern humans appeared

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Jurassic fossils show modern mammals grow faster than ancient ones

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Giant salamander-like predator roamed Namibia 280 million years ago

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An illustration of the newly identified species, called Haliskia peterseni

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Australian pterosaur had a huge tongue to help gulp down prey

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Fossil trove reveals three new species of ancient egg-laying mammals

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