Baby mammoth find promises science breakthrough
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The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.
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A laboratory perched on a windswept ridge in the Arctic should reveal vital clues about our changing planet.
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University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren Antarctica landscape is special.
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The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrived in Japan on Saturday for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts, an official said.
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The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
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A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes Â yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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Scientific study of the secrets of "freeze-tolerant" animals may yield clues for improving human medicine.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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A baby mammoth found almost intact in the permafrost of north-western Siberia is unveiled.
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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.
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Scientists say the almost perfectly preserved carcass could help resolve the mystery as to why the mammoth became extinct -- and why we might.
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Anthropologists are not often giddy with excitement, but the unearthing of the skeleton of a meter-tall female who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18,000 years ago has them whooping with delight the finding of another piece of the puzzle of the
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MAXINE McKEW: Well, what a day for science - a discovery that&#39;s been hailed as the most significant find in the past 100 years.