Ancient baby bird fossil found in China
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China. The fossil, estimated at 121 million years old, is curled up as though still in its shell.
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Paleontologists say they have discovered the fossil remains of a duck-size dinosaur species, previously unknown to science, that died while catching some z's.
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Just one week after finding feathers on the ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, Chinese and US scientists have announced the discovery of a dinosaur curled up like a sleeping cygnet.
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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, scientists said Wednesday.
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Construction crews working at Beijing's main airport unearthed a fossilized thigh bone of an elephant that lived 30,000 years ago, a news report said Thursday.
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An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years was unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.
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A 3.3-million-year-old fossil toddler&#151;the world's oldest known child&#151;has been discovered almost completely intact in Ethiopia. Experts say the find will provide fascinating new clues about our early ancestors.
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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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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million year-old fossilised dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.
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GRAY, Tenn.  - Scientists uncovered a second fossil of a red panda species first discovered at the Gray Fossil Site two years ago. Researchers from East Tennessee State University found a lower jawbone from a red panda of the Pristinailurus bristoli species last week.
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A striking multi-colored bird has   been discovered in India's remote northeast, making it the   first ornithological find in the country in more than half a   century, experts said on Tuesday.
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405 years, unmolested by science Scientists have dredged up the oldest known living creature and have called it Ming.â¦
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A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds. behaviour like caring for helpless young first began to evolve.