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Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was largest of all time

A dolphin that lived in the Amazon 16 million years ago grew to a length of 3.5 metres – larger than any other freshwater dolphin

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Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna

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Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans and sabre-toothed cats

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When does a bone become a fossil?

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FIG. 1 Cannibal Pachycormus 32427 (color)_2 https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2023.2294000

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Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in ancient fish

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Captorhinus aguti

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Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-old reptile

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Early fossil identified as new species of Tyrannosaurus

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Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster,01-01-2024,Sir David Attenborough, Steve Etches,Sir David Attenborough and Steve Etches examine the fossilised snout of a pliosaur in the workshop of the Etches Collection Museum, Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK **STRICTLY EMBARGOED NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 00:01 HRS ON MONDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2023**,BBC Studios,Screengrab

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Massive pliosaur skull sheds light on ancient sea reptile

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1.75-billion-year-old fossils help explain how photosynthesis evolved

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Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but not everyone agrees

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An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest animal ever in 2023

Perucetus colossus lived 39 million years ago and weighed in at between 85 and 340 tonnes, meaning it was probably larger than even blue whales. The discovery has inspired both fan art and music

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Illustration of a Trilobite Gut Fossil.

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Ancient trilobite stuffed itself with food almost to bursting point

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Artist illustration of Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis

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Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evolutionary tree

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2PEK6YC Professor Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins at London's Natural History Museum, moves a cast taken from the a skull of what is said to be a new species in the evolution of man named 'Homo Floresiensis' during a news conference Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. At left is a cast of Homo Sapiens skull. (AP Photo/Richard Lewis)

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How artefacts are found tells its own story – if we want to hear it

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Fossilised reptile poo contains 200-million-year-old parasites

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