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Page last updated at 10:01 GMT, Friday, 21 November 2008

The tracks may solve a 1.8 billion year old mystery
'Grape' is key to fossil puzzle
The forerunners of giant single celled organisms living on the ocean floor may have left fossil tracks often attributed to more complex creatures, say marine biologists.

Otter First otter reaches Farne Islands
An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.

Mammoth (BBC) Mammoth's genome pieced together
A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

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