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Quoted: DNA from 419-million-year-old bacteria may have belonged to the descendants of the world's first life forms.

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Quoted: Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches ...

Quoted: The largest known mass extinction in Earth's history, about 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period, may have been caused by ...

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Quoted: Steve Connor investigates the latest twist in the evolving debate about the 'hobbit' bones