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Chinese scientists have discovered new fossils unearthing mysteries about human evolution. Photo: BSS
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China discovers landmark human evolution fossils

The human fossils, along with a large number of fossilized animal bones and stone tools, have been unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Dongzhi County, east China's Anhui Province

A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesised to have been created by a Homo erectus individual, is seen in this photograph released on 28 November 2024. Photo: Reuters
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Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted

Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever
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Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever

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Ancient giant tortoise fossils found in Colombian Andes

The two metre long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered. Photo: BBC
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Skull of huge sea monster Pliosaur discovered in UK's Dorset cliffs

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12-million-year-old whale fossil skull found in Maryland

An illustrated reconstruction of the large Cretaceous Period sea turtle Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived about 83 million years ago and whose fossils were found in Catalonia's Alt Urgell county in northeastern Spain, is seen in this undated handout image. ICRA_Arts/Museu de la Conca Della - Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont/Handout via REUTERS
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Fossils of car-sized dinosaur-era sea turtle unearthed in Spain

Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, founder and director of the paleontology department at the Museum of Natural History of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, shows the fossil remains of a crocodile that inhabited the planet seven million years ago, giving scientists clues about how modern day crocodiles, who live in freshwater ecosystems, come from the sea, in Lima, Peru May 16, 2022. Picture taken May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
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Prehistoric fossil in Peru sheds light on marine origin of crocodiles

Representational image. Photo: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
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Big fossil fuel producers' plans far exceed climate targets, UN says

The new ctenophore fossil, Daihuoides jakobvintheri, was found in the fine sediments from Miguasha cliffs along the Restigouche River in the Gaspé Peninsula, eastern Québec. (Johanne Kerr)
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Finding a rare fossilized comb jelly reveals new gaps in the fossil record

Fossilized human fossilized footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. (AP)
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Around 23,000 years old human footprints in North America found in New Mexico

'Big John', the largest known triceratops, to go under the hammer
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'Big John', the largest known triceratops, to go under the hammer

Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at El Mansoura, university works on renovating the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale called "Phiomicetus Anubis", that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea, which were discovered in the Fayum Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, near the town of El Mansoura, north of Cairo, Egypt August 26, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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Fossil of previously unknown four-legged whale found in Egypt