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What does each fossilised body part tell scientists about Lucy’s species?
Meet the prehistoric giants that roamed the Arctic Circle thousands of years ago
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Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel
Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet
ANCIENT HORNS Woolly rhinos prepare to do battle ...
While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b