evolution

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Psittacosaurus – Light and Dark Shading Preserved in a Fossil Showed It Lived in a Shady Forest

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Cockroaches – Said to Be Unchanged for 300 Million Years, the Carboniferous Ones Were a Different Lineage With a Long Egg-Laying Tube

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【Life of the Triassic】Tanystropheus – The Small Ones Were Not Juveniles but Adults of a Second Species

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【Life of the Permian】Mesosaurus – The Oldest Amniote Embryos Were Inside the Mothers of a Reptile That Went Back to the Water

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【Life of the Paleogene】Pakicetus – The Four-Legged Animal an Ear Bone Made a Whale

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【Life of the Quaternary】Elephant Bird – The Closest Relative of a Bird Weighing Hundreds of Kilograms Is the Kiwi

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【Life of the Paleogene】Darwinius – The Fossil Unveiled as a “Missing Link” Turned Out to Sit on the Lemur Side of the Primates

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【Life of the Jurassic】Dilophosaurus – The Venom and Neck Frill Were Fiction; the Real Animal Was a Sturdy 6–7 m Predator

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Lepidodendron – The Bark That Fills the Coal Was Usually Less Than 5 cm Thick on the Living Tree

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【Life of the Quaternary】Tuatara – Is It a “Living Fossil”? Studies of Its Bones and Its Genes Disagree

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【Life of the Triassic】Chirotherium – The “Thumb” in the Hand-Shaped Tracks Was a Fifth Toe Sticking Out to the Side

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【Life of the Devonian】Materpiscis – The Oldest Known Mother, an Armored Fish Carrying an Embryo on an Umbilical Cord

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Nipponites – The Knotted Shell Suspected of Being a Deformity Was a Simple Coiling Rule, Repeated

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Maiasaura – Fifteen Young in a Nest Showed That Dinosaurs Raised Their Babies

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【Life of the Permian】Glossopteris – The Tongue-Shaped Leaf Scott’s Party Hauled to the End

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【Life of the Paleogene】Basilosaurus – A Whale Still Named “King Lizard”

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【Life of the Triassic】Plateosaurus – The Dinosaur That Could Not Turn Its Palms Down

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Tully Monster – Seventy Years On, No One Knows if It Was a Vertebrate

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【Life of the Jurassic】Ichthyosaurus – The First Complete Skeleton, Lost in an Air Raid, Was Found Again in Plaster

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【Life of the Permian】Helicoprion – A Spiral of Teeth That Went Without a Home for More Than a Century

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Quetzalcoatlus – The Pterosaur Thought Too Big to Fly Leapt Into the Sky

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【Life of the Jurassic】Archaeopteryx – The Fossil Whose Feathers Were Called Forgeries Was Cleared by Cracks and Mineral Patterns

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【Life of the Neogene】Megalodon – Its Length Has Been Measured With a Borrowed Great White Body

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【Life of the Quaternary】Ginkgo – Inside a Seed-Bearing Tree, Sperm Were Swimming

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【Life of the Permian】Dimetrodon – Was Its Sail a Temperature Regulator? Slicing Into the Bones Shook the Answer

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【Life of the Quaternary】Metasequoia – Named From Fossils, Then Found Alive in a Chinese Mountain Village

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【Life of the Devonian】Lungfish – The Cocoon It Sleeps In Through Droughts Is Made of Living Cells

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【Life of the Devonian】Coelacanth – The “Extinct” Fish That Comoros Fishermen Caught Every Year

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【Life of the Devonian】Dunkleosteus – Why the “10-Meter” Armored Fish Shrank to Three or Four

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【Life of the Devonian】Tiktaalik – The Fish Found by Working Out Where It Had to Be