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The fossil has now been identified as a Denisovan. Credit: Chuang Zhao. More than a century ago, a skull was pulled from a riverbank in northeastern China.

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This fossil comes from a dinosaur that lived between 94 and 101 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period, in what is now Queensland.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

It would have weighed about 750kg, while an adult T.rex could have weighed as much as eight times that, so "this is a transitional [fossil]," explained Prof Zelenitsky, "between earlier ancestors ...