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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science

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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia

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Fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs

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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction

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Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken

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New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs

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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

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Hallucigenia

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Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest-ever animals ate

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate

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Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or did it walk upright?

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Dome-headed dinosaur from Mongolia is the oldest ever found

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Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey

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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

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