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Researchers have found an armoured fossil skink 1,000 times heavier than the ones in your garden. Its closest living relative is the shingleback lizard.
In the dinosaur era, flying reptiles soared in the skies of what is now Australia – but we have barely any fossil records of them.
Nimbadon lived 15 million years ago, in forests with flesh-eating kangaroos and tree-climbing crocodiles. Our first look inside their fossilised bones has revealed how these giants grew.
Cultivated meat, like the lab-grown mammoth meatball, just might be the food of the future.
The longer these species spend in captivity the more they risk becoming inbred or losing the genetic diversity that helps resist diseases and other threats.