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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution
A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not immobile ones as biologists have long thought
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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young
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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long
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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance
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Fossil shows what lizards’ ancestors looked like 167 million years ago
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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin
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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa
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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement
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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite
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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water
A fossil from 385 million years ago named Qikiqtania wakei shows that a descendant of early land animals lost its adaptations for land and became a more efficient swimmer
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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago
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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex
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Pterosaur fossil suggests feathers may have evolved long before flight
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There are things we will never know about dinosaurs – here’s why
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