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All stories in fossil
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These fossils show our brains evolved slower than our society
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. ...
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How Jurassic sea creatures spent years crossing oceans on rafts
The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, ...
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We might've finally found dinosaur DNA, but some scientists don't think it's the real deal
Researchers in China and the US have found material in a dinosaur fossil that they claim looks like DNA. In a new paper in ...
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World's smallest dinosaur discovered in a 99-million-year-old piece of amber
The head of a flying dinosaur that is hardly bigger than a bee hummingbird has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber. ...
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Dinosaur egg bonanza gives vital clues about prehistoric parenting
Perhaps the most amazing thing about fossils is that they don’t just show us what extinct animals looked like, they can ...
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Dinosaurs are dead, but there's still life inside their bones
One of the tricks you learn hunting dinosaurs in Canada is to look for orange. Dinosaur bones are dull browns, tans, and ...
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How a poor Victorian woman changed the way we do dinosaur science
Lyme Regis is an almost obnoxiously gorgeous town in Dorset in the west of England, perched atop the cliffs of the world-heritage ...