Fossil shows parents doted 260 million years ago
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Parents have been doting over their  offspring for a very, very long time, it seems.
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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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Scientists have determined that human fossils found in Ethiopia in 1967 are 65,000 years older than first thought.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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A 121-million-year-old fossil of an unhatched bird has been found in China. The fossil suggests early bird species, like dinosaurs, were well developed at birth, scientists say.
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Researchers in China have unearthed the fossil remains of a parrotlike dinosaur surrounded by 34 juveniles. The find suggests dinosaurs were nurturing parents.
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The fossil called Little Foot, which had tantalized scientists with its human- and apelike features, is a million years younger than had been thought, a new study says.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
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They&#39;re tiny and pesky, but also hold secrets to our evolution: Head lice have shown researchers that an extinct species of early human had direct contact with modern-day man 25,000 years ago.
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The fossils of six young dinosaurs found together in a ânurseryâ in northeast China show that these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought.
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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.
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Fossilized foot marks left by a big  meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years  ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were  good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.
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By DEEPTI HAJELA  NEW YORK - In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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A UK-African team describes a new primitive dinosaur species from the Late Triassic - about 210 million years ago.