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    10 amazing facts about gharials

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    8 interesting facts about diamondback terrapins

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    Fact file | Grass snakes, the UK's largest native reptile

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    New findings reveal the origins of modern day snakes

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    Dinosaur species changed locomotion as it grew

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    Five British dinosaurs you’ve (probably) never heard of

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    Dr. Phil Manning and Dallas Evans use a pneumatic and chisel to get the jacket ready to flip so they can jacket the underside of the fossil. © The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
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    London scientists to go on US Jurassic dinosaur hunt

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    Dragon islands – how people live alongside the world’s largest venomous reptile

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    IUCN Red List update: how different species have fared

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