Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
Artwork of a Hybodus shark, a predator that evolved in the late Permian and survived the mass extinction…
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
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A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
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Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
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Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
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Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia
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Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…
A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
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Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
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