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Fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs

We've always thought that Tyrannosaurus rex was an unchallenged apex predator during the dying days of the dinosaurs. But a fresh look at controversial fossils has prompted palaeontology’s biggest-ever U-turn

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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction

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Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken

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New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs

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Illustration of sandy beach in bay

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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

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Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate

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Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a Miocene ape

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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Dome-headed dinosaur from Mongolia is the oldest ever found

A fossil from about 108 million years ago reveals an early member of the pachycephalosaurs, a group of dinosaurs with bizarre protrusions on their skulls that may have been used in combat

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Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey

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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

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Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans

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Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

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