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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil  

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Eske_PosterArt - On Hunt for the Oldest DNA

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¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ recommends documentary Hunt for the Oldest DNA

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Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction

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How the hidden lives of dinosaurs are being revealed by new technology

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How the hidden lives of dinosaurs are being revealed by new technology

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Stunningly preserved pterosaur fossils reveal how they soared

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Early humans began wiping out elephant relatives 1.8 million years ago

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Legs of a juvenile female woolly mammoth named Yuka

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Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

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Tiny great ape fossils identified as new species from Europe

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Ancient geese stood 3 metres tall and weighed as much as a cow

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

A set of Australian fossils offers a rare glimpse of the ancient relatives of platypuses and echidnas that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago

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Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted

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Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

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Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever

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Flightless terror birds stalked Antarctica after the dinosaurs' demise

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