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Largest ever shark was doomed by its taste for dwarf whales

The 16-metre-long megalodon may have fed on small marine mammals, and when they went extinct, so did the sharks

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Footprints clearly imprinted in ancient rock

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Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several ‘wives’

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T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber

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T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber

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Model of how Lucy might have looked

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Early hominin Lucy had powerful arms from years of tree-climbing

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Massive sea lizards once hunted plesiosaurs in Antarctica

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Massive sea lizards once hunted plesiosaurs in Antarctica

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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Giant antler bones

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The deer whose antlers spanned three-and-a-half metres

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Ancient bee fossil reveals secrets of human ancestor’s habitat

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Thylacoleo carnifex skeleton

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Marsupial lion’s primate-like forearms made it a unique predator

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First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain

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First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain

The 70 million year old dinosaur must have lived in pain as it had septic arthritis, an especially nasty form of the disease caused by infection

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Fossil tumour is oldest evidence of human cancer discovered yet

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T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose

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Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

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