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megalodon

Environment

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

Footprints clearly imprinted in ancient rock

Humans

Oldest early human footprints suggest males had several 鈥榳ives鈥�

Environment

T. rex cousin鈥檚 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber

Model of how Lucy might have looked

Humans

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

Environment

Massive sea lizards once hunted plesiosaurs in Antarctica

Earth

Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

Giant antler bones

Life

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

Taung Child

Humans

Ancient bee fossil reveals secrets of human ancestor鈥檚 habitat

Thylacoleo carnifex skeleton

Environment

Marsupial lion鈥檚 primate-like forearms made it a unique predator

Earth

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

Life

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

Earth

Petrified rocks sent back by visitors who stole them from park

Environment

Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes