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A worm with legs? No, you're not seeing things

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A worm with legs? No, you're not seeing things

In life this weird-looking fossil was Hallucigenia, a creature like a worm – although the spines, head and legs might suggest otherwise

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Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?

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Just how rare is intelligent life in the universe?

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Essence of man: Y size doesn't matter

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Essence of man: Y size doesn't matter

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Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

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Meet your maker: Homing in on the ancestor of all life

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Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

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Ancient life forms fed through fractal arms

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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago

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Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago

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Flip the birds: Migration began in the north not south

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Flip the birds: Migration began in the north not south

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Mega penguin next to human height size comparison

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Extinct mega penguin was tallest and heaviest ever

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Dinosaurs shrank for 50 million years to become birds

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Dinosaurs shrank for 50 million years to become birds

The meat-eating theropod dinosaurs shrank 12 times in a row, going from over 200 kilograms to less than a kilogram, until they were small enough to fly

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Killer sperm ravages internal organs of luckless worms

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Bloodsuckers fed on dinosaurs 130 million years ago

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Feathersaurus: plant-eating dinos had plumage too

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Oxygen oasis for early life found in ancient rock

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