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A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age

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A large species of gharial, an animal closely related to crocodiles, roamed China 3000 years ago, but was probably driven extinct by humans Life 9 March 2022 By Michael Marshall Hanyusuchus sinensis fossils and a drawing of the gharial Illustration by Hikaru Amemiya An unknown crocodile-like animal probably lived in China until just a few … Read more

We Now Have The Largest Ever Human ‘Family Tree’, With 231 Million Ancestral Lineages

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In June 2000, two rival groups of researchers shook hands in the shared success of a milestone in biology – the delivery of a rough draft of the human genome. What started with an incomplete map of our chromosomes has since bloomed into a vast trove of individualized sequences from all corners of the globe, … Read more

Fossils: Remains of largest millipede that ever lived found on English beach

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Arthropleura was the largest millipede ever to live, and palaeontologists have just found the fossilised remains of the longest specimen yet on a beach in northern England Life 21 December 2021 By Chen Ly Reconstruction of the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived 326 million years ago Neil Davies The remains of a 326-million-year-old giant millipede, … Read more