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Kraken versus ichthyosaur: let battle commence
Researcher suggests odd arrangement of marine fossils was stockpiled by enormous, tentacled beast.
- Sid Perkins
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Adding bite to hominin history
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Palaeoanthropology: Craniums with clout
A look at two early human fossils reveals the prejudices in ideas about human evolution, finds Henry Gee.
- Henry Gee
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Denisovan dispersal details
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A mixture of old and new
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Ancient sea jelly makes tree of life wobble
Fossil suggests evolutionary order requires revision.
- Amy Maxmen
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A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
- Zhe-Xi Luo
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- & Qiang Ji
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New candidates for oldest fossils
Remains in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks hint at when cellular life arose, and how it powered itself.
- Lee Sweetlove
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Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy
- Zhikun Gai
- , Philip C. J. Donoghue
- & Marco Stampanoni
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Did reptile swimmer show mother love?
A single large baby suggests that plesiosaurs cared for their young.
- Zoë Corbyn
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50 & 100 years ago
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Lobopodian phylogeny reanalysed
- David A. Legg
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- & Mark D. Sutton
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A trilobite's footprint
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A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula
- Kirsty E. H. Penkman
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- & Matthew J. Collins
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Another origin of domestic dogs
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Archaeopteryx no longer first bird
Mounting evidence shows famous fossil more closely related to Velociraptor.
- Matt Kaplan
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An icon knocked from its perch
As sesquicentennial celebrations commemorate the discovery of Archaeopteryx as a historical symbol of evolution and the oldest fossil bird, new work shakes the dinosaur family tree — and our view of this icon. See Article p.465
- Lawrence M. Witmer
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Coral genomes could aid reef conservation
Sequences of two species shed light on corals' response to stress and disease.
- Ewen Callaway
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Bridging the dino gap
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Turtles emerge from their evolutionary shell
Genetic data show turtles and lizards had a close common ancestor.
- Chloe McIvor
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Palaeontology: Living it large
Brian Switek swoons over a New York exhibition that brings giant sauropods back to life.
- Brian Switek
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The youngest dinosaur fragment yet?
Scientists dispute fossil's significance to the extinction debate.
- Zoë Corbyn
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Dinosaurs: Rise of the titans
The sauropods were the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet. But the keys to their success emerged in their tiny ancestors.
- Fredric Heeren
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Ancient tooth tells of migration
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Calcified clue to ancient photosynthesis
Mat of microbes contains calcium carbonate that could only have formed through photosynthesis.
- Katharine Sanderson
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Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change
- Philip S. L. Anderson
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X-rays illuminate fossil pigment
A new technique gives clues to the shading of fossil animals.
- Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib
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Worldly dinosaurs roamed afar
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Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia
- Michael S. Y. Lee
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Twisted structure preserved dinosaur proteins
Collagen coils might have kept Tyrannosaurus molecules safe from harm for millions of years.
- Ed Yong
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Hungarian natural history under threat
Historical collections given marching orders as government plans military university at museum site.
- Marian Turner
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Human ancestors in Eurasia earlier than thought
Stone fragments found in Georgia suggest Homo erectus might have evolved outside Africa.
- Matt Kaplan
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In search of the australopithecines
Evidence from strontium isotope ratios preserved in fossil teeth provides a glimpse into the group dynamics and ranging habits of the australopithecines that can be compared with the patterns for modern primates. See Letter p.76
- Margaret J. Schoeninger
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Female australopiths seek brave new world
Teeth from ancient human ancestors suggest that females joined new social groups once they reached maturity.
- Ewen Callaway
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Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa
- G. Borgonie
- , A. García-Moyano
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Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins
- Sandi R. Copeland
- , Matt Sponheimer
- & Michael P. Richards
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Stronger smell, bigger brain
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Cambrian super-predators grew large in arms race
Metre-long anomalocaridids survived millions of years later than was thought.
- Ewen Callaway
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Mammalian brain followed a scented evolutionary trail
Digital scans suggest mammals have their ancestors to thank for their keen sense of smell.
- Ewen Callaway
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Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins
- Johannes Müller
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Dinosaur footprints threatened by natural gas project
Fossilized tracks in Western Australia could be lost if processing plant is built.
- James Mitchell Crow
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Ancient marsupials played possum in packs
Fossils suggest that the solitary nature of modern marsupials is not inherited from their ancestors.
- Matt Kaplan
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Earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviour in the basal Tertiary of Bolivia
- Sandrine Ladevèze
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Dinosaur predators hunted in the dark
Study of eye bones reveals details of ancient reptile lifestyles.
- Matt Kaplan
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A jaw-dropping ear
A fossil from the Early Cretaceous provides insight into the evolution of the hearing apparatus in mammals. Anchoring the eardrum was, it seems, an essential step in freeing the middle ear from the jaw. See Article p.181
- Anne Weil
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Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes
- Paul K. Strother
- , Leila Battison
- & Charles H. Wellman