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    Fossilised dinosaur skull reveals adorable appearance of baby sauropods © Kundrat et al. /Current Biology
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    Fossilised dinosaur skull reveals adorable appearance of baby sauropods

    Eigg-ceptional dinosaur bone found on Scottish island © Matt Humpage
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    Eigg-ceptional dinosaur bone found on Scottish island

    Ancient reptile ‘well-preserved’ in stomach of slightly larger reptile © Ryosuke Motani/University of California
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    Ancient reptile ‘well-preserved’ in stomach of slightly larger reptile

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    429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil 'almost identical to that of modern bees' (Researchers used digital microscopy to re-examine a fossilised trilobite © Brigitte Schoenemann/University of Cologne)
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    429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’

    New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight (Artists impression of the dinosaurs final moments c Trudie Wilson/PA)
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    New dinosaur species discovered on the Isle of Wight a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex

    99-million-year-old fossilised ‘hell ant’ shows how these ancient insects hunted © NJIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Rennes, France
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    99-million-year-old fight between ‘hell ant’ and its prey preserved in amber

    Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with 'extraordinarily long neck' lived in the ocean © Emma Finley-Jacob
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    Mystery solved! 240-million-year-old reptile with 'extraordinarily long neck' lived in the ocean

    Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs (Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago) © Alex Boersma)
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    Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs

    Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs not only lived in the Arctic 'but thrived there' (An artist impression of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs © Andrey Atuchin/Plos One))
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    Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs ‘not only lived in the Arctic but thrived there’

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    200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur 'walked like a guineafowl' © Getty Images
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    200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur ‘walked like a guineafowl’

    25-million-year-old mega wombat 'about the size of a black bear' discovered © Peter Schoute/Scientific Reports
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    25-million-year-old mega wombat ‘about the size of a black bear’ discovered

    Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
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    Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur

    Cannibal dinosaurs found to have roamed late-Jurassic Earth © Brian Engh/University of Tennessee
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    Cannibal dinosaurs may once have roamed late-Jurassic Earth

    Dinosaur sex differences 'hard to spot' from fossils alone © Mark Witton
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    Dinosaur sex differences ‘hard to spot’ from fossils alone

    Round 'pebble-like' teeth found in 250 million-year-old marine reptile © Ryosuke Motani
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    Ichthyosaur’s pebble-like teeth used to ‘crush the shells of their prey’

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