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The Netherlands is returning a fossil collection taken from Indonesia in the colonial era, including the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus (apnews.com)
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The Dutch government has agreed to return the historically significant Dubois Collection of over 28,000 fossils, including the "Java Man" (Homo erectus), to Indonesia. This act of restitution is based on a commission's finding that the fossils were removed unjustly and "against the will of the people" during the colonial era.

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Some US streams and rivers facing severe declines in fish populations, new study suggests (abcnews.go.com)
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Ancient iridescent flat bug preserved in amber may have taken part in pollination (phys.org)
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'Ghost sharks' grow forehead teeth to help them have sex, study suggests (phys.org)
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Polish researchers find fish tracks showing earliest adaptations for moving on land (phys.org)
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The Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute reports a Lower Devonian (419 to 393 million years ago) fossilized trackway in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, attributed to dipnoan fish. Their analysis finds what appears to be the earliest record of fish testing the land mobility skills of vertebrates, predating by about 10 million years the first evidence of fully terrestrial tetrapod locomotion.

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5-million-year-old deer fossils link modern wildlife to ancient North American forests (phys.org)
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Oldest known docodontan fossil found in Greenland narrows the evolutionary gap (phys.org)