Evolution
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How did the whale get its 'moustache'?Palaeontologists have uncovered clues to one of the great mysteries of whale evolution: the filter-feeding baleen
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Bobby: the gorilla on the wrong side of the lawThe western lowland gorilla was smuggled from Africa to Italy in the 1980s. As taxidermy, he is part of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland
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Snakes versus dragons: how we filmed this sequence for Planet Earth IICameraman Richard Wollocombe reveals what it took to capture the stand-out sequence of Galapagos racer snakes hunting baby marine iguanas en masse
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Unlocking the genetic code of an ancient survivorThe draft genome of Ginkgo biloba, the sole surviving species of an ancient group of seed plants, has been published
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Dinosaur brain tissue discovered for first time in 130m-year-old fossilThought to belong to a relative of the Iguanodon, the thin layer of mineralised matter is the first fossilised brain tissue found for any land-living vertebrate
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Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprisesScientists discover previously unrecognised species among historical collections, including American bear-dogs, hoofed mammals, and British ichthyosaurs
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New species of giant herbivorous dinosaur found in outback Australia95m-year-old Savannasaurus elliottorum leads researchers to propose new theory of how sauropods spread around the world
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How an Australian sheep farmer discovered a new species of giant dinosaur – videoDavid Elliott’s discovery of a toe bone led to the remains of the huge Savannasaurus elliottorum
Notes & Theories Why we're closer than ever to a timeline for human evolution