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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

Flowerless gymnosperms, such as conifer and ginkgo, ruled the Jurassic world before their flowering rivals, the angiosperms, became dominant. What caused the fall of one and the rise of the other?

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Fossil shows what lizards' ancestors looked like 167 million years ago

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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

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Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).
panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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Illustration of a warm-blooded ancestor of mammals

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Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

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Illustration of Qikiqtania wakei in the water

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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

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A reconstruction of Stanleycaris hirpex

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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago

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An artist illustration of Meraxes

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Meraxes gigas was a huge dinosaur with tiny arms like T. rex

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Ediacaran fossils

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Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth’s mysterious first animals?

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Tiny structures in rock may be fossils of earliest known life on Earth

A centimetre-long branching structure found in a rock dated to at least 3.75 billion years ago may be the earliest evidence for life on Earth, although not everyone agrees

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Ancient footprints show children splashed in puddles 11,500 years ago

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Ancient mammal skulls

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Mammals grew big after dinosaurs died but their brains stayed small

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Nagini mazonense

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Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs

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Skye Pterosaur

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Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found

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