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The Cutting Edge of Palaeontology
By John Long
New techniques are enabling palaeontologists to test hypotheses about major evolutionary transitions.
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The Placoderm Renaissance
By John Long
Placoderm fish were once thought to be an evolutionary dead end, but new evidence is rewriting their importance to the ancestry of all jawed animals – including humans.
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World's Oldest Fossil Sperm Found at Riversleigh
By John Long
Synchrotron imaging of a 16 million-year-old ostracod found in NSW has revealed the world’s oldest fossilised sperm.
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The Rise of Arthropods
By John Long
Spectacular arthropod fossils have shed light on their early anatomy, and might one day help resolve the mystery of their distant origins.
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Scans Reveal Our Fishy Ancestry
By John Long
A synchrotron scan of a 400 million-year-old fish has revealed how far back our own facial structures evolved, and a 28 million-year-old toothed whale fossil has revealed the origins of echolocation in modern whales.
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