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According to a paper published this month in Nature Communications, researchers report a newly discovered dinosaur that lived ...

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The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on the evolution of an important yet thus far poorly understood ...

A 410-million-year-old armored fish from Yunnan, China, pushes back the fossil record of euantiarchs by 10 million years and ...

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Nicola Lamb says the trauma robbed her of her father, as new figures show roofing fraud is the most common scam reported to Citizens Advice ...

A tiny insect preserved in 16-million-year-old lake sediments in southern Germany is rewriting what scientists know about an ...