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A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

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Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

P. furnessi is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List. Their current ...

A newly described fossil snake from India is forcing scientists to redraw the record books on reptile gigantism, with some ...