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    19 beautiful pictures from the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2020 competition

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    Meet 'Wonderchicken', the oldest fossil of a modern bird (Dr Daniel Field from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences with a 3D printed version of the Wonderchicken skull © Dr Daniel J Field/ PA)
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    Meet ‘Wonderchicken’, the oldest known fossil of a modern bird

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    Do crows actually fly in a straight line?

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