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A fossilised jawbone found by a University of Portsmouth student is from a newly identified species of prehistoric mammal. Undergraduate Benjamin Weston, 22, unearthed the fossil during a field trip t

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Dinosaurs were prehistoric egg-laying reptiles that went extinct millions of years ago, but their survivors still live among us

The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo

THE DEEP SEA IS BY FAR THE LARGEST habitat on Earth. It is, says Natalie Lawrence in her book Enchanted Creatures, “the last wilderness vast enough to hide monsters”. Unsurprisingly, many myths have a

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