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Human Skull Of 'Dragon Man' Is Disrupting Human Evolution As We Know It: Here's How

A 1-million-year-old skull in China, linked to Dragon Man and Denisovans, is reshaping theories of human evolution and sparking global scientific debate.

International Business Times UK

The Netherlands is returning a fossil collection taken from Indonesia in the colonial era

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a renowned collection

The Independent UK

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans

Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

The Guardian - UK

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New ‘apex predator’ dinosaur fossil unearthed with remains of crocodile prey still in mouth

Dinosaur and its cousins were dominant predators in South America, study finds

The Independent UK

Scientists discover a new dinosaur with a crocodile bone in its mouth

The new find hailed from a mysterious group of dinosaurs called megaraptorans

The Independent UK

Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say

Silverpit crater off Yorkshire coast was caused by cathedral-sized asteroid that set off 100-metre tsunami 43m years ago

The Guardian - UK

Prehistoric insects trapped in amber give ‘little windows’ into ancient life on Earth

For the first time, scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America

The Independent UK

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Thursday mornings won’t be the same without Melvyn Bragg

Letters: Steve Brown reveals how In Our Time has provided a superb resource for his teaching, plus letters from Robert McNulty, Helen Read and Moxley Cooper

The Guardian - UK

Dinosaurs to supercrocs: Niger’s bone keepers preserve its ancient fossils

The Sahel country is one of the few African nations to boast rare dinosaurs, but safeguarding them is a challenge.

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Fossils show pair of baby pterosaurs ‘died in violent storm’

Stunning fossils from Germany reveal hatchlings were injured and drowned during tropical storm 150 million years ago

The Independent UK

Autumn has landed! Kate Garraway's polka dot raincoat is a style life saver for rainy September

The broadcaster took a practical approach to autumn dressing and perhaps its a sign we should do the same

Woman & Home

What is the world’s biggest coin and how many lions are there? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK

Mysterious ‘Petralona Man’ Skull Found In Cave 60 Years Ago Baffles Experts After New Study

"Conspiracy TikTokers will have a field day with this."

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‘Hypercarnivore’ crocodile relative that ripped apart dinosaurs discovered

Species is second-largest predator known from Patagonian fossil site

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'Strangest ever' dinosaur armoured with metre-long spikes uncovered by scientists

Spicomellus roamed the earth 165 million years ago and had bony spikes projecting from all of its ribs

The Independent UK

New fossil reveals secrets of ‘bizarre’ armoured dinosaur covered in spikes

Experts have been left stunned by the dinosaur’s unique appearance

The Guardian - UK

‘Bristling with spikes’: oldest known ankylosaur fossil found in Morocco

Extravagant armour and tail weaponry on Spicomellus afer fossil confound existing theories of how the species evolved

International Business Times

Human Ancestor Lucy Gets First European Showing In Prague

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time Monday at the Czech National Museum in Prague.

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The Guardian - UK

My two-year-old’s hearing loss diagnosis shocked me; her doctor’s words saved me

I was horrified at the idea of these clunky devices on my tiny girl, but the profound advice her audiologist gave me sustains me to this day, says writer Helene Rosenthal

The Guardian - UK

New species of dinosaur with ‘eye-catching sail’ discovered on Isle of Wight

Istiorachis macarthurae, named after sailor Ellen MacArthur, had a pronounced sail along its back that may have been used to attract mates

The Independent UK

Scientists discover new dinosaur species with ‘eye-catching sail used for mating’

Fossils of the new iguanodontian dinosaur were found on the Isle of Wight

The Guardian - UK

Michael Waldman obituary

Other lives: Palaeontologist and geology teacher who discovered the first mammal fossil from the time of the dinosaurs in Scotland

The Guardian - UK

‘Status, hierarchy, cool – none of it matters’: Dinosaur Pile-Up’s frontman on the chronic illness that changed his life

Doctors were baffled as Matt Bigland bled internally and his body became unrecognisable. He’s now channelled the trauma into a headbanging new album

The Guardian - UK

Josie Long: Now Is the Time of Monsters review – beauty in the beasts

Candid family snapshots meet leftist politics and wondrous prehistoric megafauna in Long’s singular take on the state of the world

The Independent UK

Fossil teeth lead to discovery of human species that lived alongside our oldest ancestors

New species does not have a name yet

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