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Researchers find Earth’s first rainforest

World’s first rainforest found in Illinois

First amphibians were biters not suckers

Maize cultivated at least 7,300 years ago in Mexico

Dinosaur extinction didn’t produce current mammal evolution

Evolutionary precursor to snake discovered

Newly discovered burrowing dinosaur loved its offspring

Prehistoric lizard glided through air using ribs

Caribbean coral reefs result of mass extinction, rise of isthmus

Ancient humanoids were short and nasty for kung fu fighting, not climbing

Prehistoric spiky freakshow discovered in rock

Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact

Giant carnivorous marsupial beasts not killed by climate change in Australia

Europeans may have caused extinction of large mammals in Caribbean

Carnivorous ‘terror bird’ stalked America before isthmus formation

Early dinosaur flew like a biplane

Leaf-mimicking insects at least 47 million years old

Giant dinosaur discovered in Spain – largest ever recorded in Europe

How did giant dinosaurs digest their food without molars?

Mammals may have flown before birds

‘Loch Ness Monster’ found in Antarctica

Ancient hominid not our ancestor finds new study

Neanderthal life was miserable suggests new evidence

Ancient fish had bite like Tyrannosaurus rex

Ancient sea monster found in Montana

Ancient climate record preserved in prehistoric plants

Researchers find the missing link for elephant evolution

Birds evolved from gliding four-legged dinosaurs

Recovery of biodiversity after dinosaurs was chaotic

Ancient blue whale was a shark killer

Ancient bison teeth provide window on past Great Plains climate

Picture of ancient missing link between fish and land animals

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