Tropical giant penguin discovered
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Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said yesterday.
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A prehistoric neck bone found 12 years ago by amateur fossil hunters in Britain belongs to the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK and possibly Europe, a report published in the Cretaceous Research Journal said today.
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An extremely rare whale with a beak like a dolphin found dead on a Byron Bay beach has excited Australia&#39;s marine researchers.
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On one island visited by Sinbad during his travels, he found a giant bird with the wingspan of a whale, while Odysseus, according to Homer, discovered an island race of one-eyed giants who ate humans.
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Sept. 20 -- An auction of rights to name 10 newly discovered species of fish raised more than $2 million for conservation efforts in eastern Indonesia on Thursday night, setting a record for an event of its type.
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A shoal of sunfish -- the world's largest bony fish -- has been spotted in the waters off Cornwall, south west Britain, despite normally being found thousands of miles away, scientists said.
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New research reveals the Bristol dinosaur lived on small subtropical islands and not in a desert environment as first thought.
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Scientists from India working in the Himalayas have discovered a new species of monkey.
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Scientists in Uruguay have found the  fossil remains of a 2,000 pound (1,000 kg) rodent that lived 2  million to 4 million years ago -- the largest rodent ever  found.
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Uruguayan scientists have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, more than eight feet long and weighing between 1,700 and 3,000 pounds.
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A massive palm tree discovered on the island of Madagascar represents a new genus and species, researchers say.
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Researchers in a remote Indonesian jungle have discovered a giant rat that is about five times the size of a typical city rat and a tiny possum, scientists said Monday.
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SCIENTISTS have discovered a new species of flightless bird on a remote island in the Philippines, the conservation group BirdLife International said yesterday.
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Researchers reported for the first time last week that they have found the virus in a nonprimate species â bats.
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A NEW bird species, which is believed to be found nowhere else in the world, has been discovered on the remote island of Calayan, 70 km north of Luzon.
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This conclusion comes from US and Chinese scientists who today announce the discovery of a 130m-year-old forerunner of the lumbering Cretaceous predator.