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A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
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Early fossil eukaryotes were benthic aerobes
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Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism
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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
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The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period
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Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
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Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
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