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Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time
Renaissance-era polymath Leonardo da Vinci may have seen a whale fossil in his youth, prompting him to speculate that Earth was enormously old
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Fossil cells with ‘tails’ may have been moving 3.4 billion years ago
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The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought
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What was the biggest dinosaur?
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Fossil 鈥榤onster鈥� looks alien but may be related to primitive fish
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Tiny bird-like dinosaur discovered in amber might actually be a lizard
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Our ancestors may have run a million years earlier than we thought
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Prehistoric giant turtle shell is the biggest ever found
The 2.4-metre-long shell found in the Tatacoa desert in Colombia belonged to a giant turtle called Stupendemys geographicus, which was twice the size of the leatherback turtle
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Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells
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The smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossil that seemed too good to be true
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A skull suggests humans have been getting piercings for 12,000 years
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The oldest fungi fossils have been identified in a Belgian museum
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