Dinosaur ancestors hardier than thought
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Blog: Paleontologists have found that precursors to dinosaurs weren't so rapidly replaced as previously thought.
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A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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Fossils from two newly discovered  meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110  million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's  Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with  unusual carnivores.
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LONDON - The earliest known relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had primitive feathers, probably to help it keep warm. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found the remains of the
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Science & environment: Fearsome dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park films probably more closely resembled a big turkey, scientists have discovered.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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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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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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The fossilized remains of six young  dinosaurs found together in a &quot;nursery&quot; at a site in China show  these animals had started forming social groups much earlier  than previously thought, scientists said on Thursday.
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A collision 160 million years ago of  two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big  rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that  zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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The ascent of the dinosaurs to the  throne of the animal kingdom may have been more gradual than  previously believed, scientists said on Thursday.
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The bigger they are, the harder they (might) fall.
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A fossil unearthed in China gives scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like "in the flesh".
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SPACE.com / Insect bite marks in ancient leaf fossils are shedding new light on how nature bounced back after an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth 65 million years ago.
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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.