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Baobab trees trace the African diaspora across the Indian Ocean
Why are African baobab trees found in India? Genetic research is starting to shed light on the answer.
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Why are we the only human species still alive?
Once Earth was home to a host of human species, from Neanderthals to hobbits. But today only we survive.
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Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?
At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!
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The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils
A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress. By Ferris Jabr.
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Dinosaur Blood Vessels Survived 80 Million Years Without Fossilizing
Tiny, delicate vessels that carried blood through a duck-billed dinosaur 80 million years ago never fossilized and still contain the beast's tissue, a new study finds.
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Just what is a Nimravid, anyway?
The saber-toothed cat is one of the most famous of prehistoric icons, but perhaps one of the most neglected when it comes to public understanding.
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Paleontologists Find a Surprise in Ancient Vomit
By picking through ancient puke, scientists found an oddball reptile.
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Pterosaurs Aren’t Actually Dinosaurs, but They Are Actually Awesome
We tend to forget that while T. rex, Triceratops, Diplodocus, and the like were lumbering across the land, the air above was thick with volant reptiles.
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Signs of a mass Extinction behind a shopping centre in New Jersey
Pit contains remains of dinosaurs from 66 million years ago
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This Immaculately Preserved Beetle Walked with the Dinosaurs
You will not look this good in 99 million years. By Jennifer Frazer.
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Spinosaurus Devoured Meals Like a Giant Pelican
A new study of the jaws of Spinosaurus indicates that it may have eaten its prey much like a giant pelican or modern snakes.
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Found: an ancient crocodile as long as a bus
The largest ever sea-dwelling crocodile has been uncovered in Tunisia. It was longer than a great white shark and its skull was as big as a person.
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New Species of Jurassic Dinosaur Discovered in Wales
Amateur archaeologists found the bones of the creature in the debris of a rock slide, next to a cliff face close to the Glamorganshire Golf Club. The discovery marks the first time a Jurassic era dinosaur has been unearthed in Wales.
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New clues to the past in Nevada's desert fossils
Scientific inquiry is a process of constant revision. And revision is where the most intriguing discoveries happen.
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The reign of the terror birds
Meet the scariest birds you can imagine, scaled up to nightmarish proportions
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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?
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What Sparked the Cambrian Explosion?
An evolutionary burst 540 million years ago filled the seas with an astonishing diversity of animals. The trigger behind that revolution is finally coming into focus. By Douglas Fox.
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Paleo Profile: The Purgatoire River’s Whale Fish
This big fish ate tiny meals.
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Ancient fossil was 'nearly a spider'
Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest ancient relative to "true spiders" ever discovered.
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The Genus Homo – Ian Tattersall – Inference
The history of the hominid family, like that of other mammals, means diversification, competition, and, sometimes, extinction. Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall explains why we need a phylogeny-based definition of the genus Homo that includes our species Homo sapiens, and why we don’t have one.
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