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There are things we will never know about dinosaurs 鈥� here’s why
Despite two centuries of incredible discoveries, an inability to locate fossils means that many secrets about these species will never be found, says David Hone
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Some of the earliest complex animals were fossilised in a river delta
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A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age
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Burst of animal evolution altered chemical make-up of Earth’s mantle
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Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be three separate species
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New human species has been named Homo bodoensis – but it may not stick
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Some ancient giant ground sloths dined on meat
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Land-dwelling turtles from the Cretaceous period had extra-tough eggs
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Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago
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Baby pterosaurs could fly within minutes of hatching from their eggs
The wings of hatchling pterosaurs were ideally suited to powered flight, suggesting they took to the air almost immediately after emerging 鈥� unlike most modern birds
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Extinct Sicilian elephant lost 8000 kilograms as it evolved and shrank
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Fossil shows a shark eating a proto-squid as it ate a crustacean
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Tyrannosaurs may have hunted together in packs like wolves
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First million-year-old DNA extracted from Siberian mammoth teeth
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