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AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought
The late Devonian mass extinction around 375 million years ago may not have really happened, according to an analysis using machine learning
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Ancient shark used its teeth like the blade of a power tool
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Life
Mummified skin suggests duck-billed dinosaurs were grey like elephants
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Tiny T. rex fossils aren’t a new species – they are just teenagers
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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life鈥檚 big bang never happened
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Humans
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
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Life
Cold-blooded mammals roamed Earth for tens of millions of years
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Earth
Fossilised microbes from 3.5 billion years ago are oldest yet found
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Dinosaurs go goth horror for unusual outing at London exhibition
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Humans
Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil
We thought that walking on all fours like a gorilla is more primitive than walking on two legs as humans do. But new fossils suggest even very ancient apes walked upright
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Life
Early whales swam doggy paddle across the ocean from India to Africa
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Earth
Military now controls Myanmar鈥檚 scientifically important amber mines
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Humans
We’ve finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors
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Earth
Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time
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