Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
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Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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‘Teenage T. rex’ fossil is actually a different species
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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
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Million-year-old skull reconstruction hints at a new chapter in human evolution
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A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia
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The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations
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New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia
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