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Ancient finger bone may reveal humanity’s path out of Africa
A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa
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Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier
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The fossil finder who can’t wait to return to war-torn Yemen
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Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time
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This is the oldest fossil of a plesiosaur from the dinosaur era
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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species
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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us
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Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction
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The mass extinction that might never have happened
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We’ve drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years
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Perfectly preserved fossil salamander even has last meal in gut
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