Cretaceous duck ruffles feathers
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Ducks may have been paddling about in primeval swamps when Tyrannosaurus rex was king of the dinosaurs, scientists report in Nature.
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A 121 million-year-old baby arboreal bird, fossilised while still curled in its egg, has been found in China, Science magazine reports this week.
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The fossils of feathered dinosaurs whose discoveries helped firm hypotheses on the origin of birds will be exhibited publicly in the U.S. for the first time this weekend.
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Chinese and American scientists have discovered a fossil in northeast China which has provided a first look at dinosaurs&#39; bird-like sleep.
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.
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A bird once extinct in the UK lays eggs in the wilderness for the first time in more than 170 years.
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A 121 million-year-old baby bird,  fossilized while still curled in its egg, has been found in China.
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The dinosaurs might have gone out with a sudden bang, but their rise to dominance was a gradual ascent, experts say.
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An exceptionally well-preserved 65  million year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs  exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on  Sunday.
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The fossilised remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been uncovered in the region of Inner Mongolia, China.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, used both its feathered forelimbs and hind limbs to glide from trees, according to a new analysis of fossils found in the 1800s.
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At this time of year, the world seems built for birds on the wing.
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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Two new fossilized pterosaur eggs have been discovered. The fossils suggest that the dinosaur-era flying reptiles lived in colonies and raised their young, experts say.
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China has uncovered the  skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like  dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.