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Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

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Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...