Skull of giant panda's ancestor found
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The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda was been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L. Ciochon in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought
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A giant panda in China has given birth  to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period  in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins,  Xinhua news agency reported.
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Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging.
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The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was much smaller than its modern day counterpart, scientists say
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CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most endangered animals, China's giant panda.
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Fossil remains of the oldest and smallest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, the world&#39;s favorite ferocious dinosaur, have been discovered in China with evidence that its body was cloaked in downy &quot;protofeathers.
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Two fossil finds in China suggest that prehistoric mammals were bigger and badder than previously thought. At least one even ate dinosaurs for dinner.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in today&#39;s issue of Science magazine.
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The Louis Armstrong of the late Cretaceous? Researchers led by the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah have unearthed a new species of dinosaur - a massive plant-eater belonging to the hadrosaur group of plant-eating duck-billed dinos, which may have had the ability to bang out a tune using a fan-shaped bony crest on its skull.â¦
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Paleontologists from Argentina and Brazil on Monday unveiled a new giant dinosaur species that lived 88 millions of years ago in the Patagonia region of Argentina, where they found its fossils.
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An almost complete human skull fossil  that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China,  state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest  discovery since Peking Man.
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A U.S.-born giant panda has given birth  to twin cubs in a research centre in southwest China, state  media reported on Tuesday, its third pair of twins so far.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.