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Image copyright A.Romilio/University of Queensland Image caption An artist’s impression of what one of these creatures might have looked like Scientists have been stunned to find that some ancient crocodiles might have moved around on two feet. The evidence comes from beautifully preserved fossil tracks in South Korea. Nearly a hundred of these 18-24cm-long indentations …

Image copyright British Museum Image caption Two ostrich eggs found in the “Isis tomb”, an elite burial at Etruscan Vulci (Italy) If you wanted to give an extravagant gift 5,000 years ago, you might have chosen an ostrich egg. Now some of these beautiful Easter egg-sized objects are in London’s British Museum. The eggs were …