Baby plesiosaur bones found in Antarctic
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The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT - A paleontologist has uncovered the fossilized remains of a giant carnivorous dinosaur in Nunavut. Hans Larsson of Montreal&#39;s McGill University found the remains while scanning the tundra and rock formations for fossils.
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A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.   The unearthed beaked dinosaur  was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scales at more than 3,000 pounds. Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was just 11 years old when it perished.   Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the dinosaur, now named Gigantoraptor erlianensis, in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China. ...
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON - Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report.
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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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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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Scientists believe they have found a new species of giant plant-eating dinosaur at a site in Argentina.
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In China, scientists have identified the fossilized remains of a tiny dinosaur in the stomach of a mammal. Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago.
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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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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 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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Washington - 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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Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a short-necked plesiosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile the size of a bus, that they believe is the first complete skeleton ever found.
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The biggest dinosaur yet found in the UK is unearthed by fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight.
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The well-preserved carcass of a 10,000-year-old baby mammoth has been unearthed in the northern Siberian permafrost, a discovery scientists said could help in climate change studies.