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DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered
DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland once had spruce forests populated by hares, reindeer and even mastodons
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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution
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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young
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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long
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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance
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Fossil shows what lizards’ ancestors looked like 167 million years ago
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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin
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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa
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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement
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T. rex鈥檚 unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite
Some large, meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex had keyhole-shaped eye sockets, and reconstructions suggest this helped them bite with greater force
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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water
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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago
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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
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