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Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.

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Learn more about the microbial communities found around ancient bones and the role they play in preservation and decay.

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Learn how rock doves, otherwise known as the common pigeon, may have been one of humanity’s earliest companion birds, ...