Fossil of Child, Age 3 Million, Offers New Insights
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If Lucy, the famous woman from the deep human past, had a child, it might have looked like the latest discovery.
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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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Vertebrate Paleontologist Amy C. Henrici of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh holds a stone fossil of a new genus and species of terrestrial adopted amphibian that lived in the Pennsylvanian Period, about 300 million years ago, Monday
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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A new look at climate conditions 55 million years ago shows that the Earth is more sensitive to small changes than previously believed.
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In a discovery sure to fuel an old debate about our evolutionary history, scientists have found a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy."
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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Australian scientists predicted a &quot;palaeontological gold rush&quot; after the discovery of a new species of tiny human in neighbouring Indonesia in a find that will re-draw the human family tree.
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Computer analysis of an African fossil indicates that a human-like creature walked upright six million years ago&#151;the earliest evidence of bipedalism found to date.
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By Unnati Gandhi  Paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft- bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is the history of life on Earth.
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New research suggests that the Âgreat dyingÂ 251 million years ago was followed by an explosion of complexity in marine life that has persisted ever since.
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A fossil unearthed in China gives scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like "in the flesh".
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Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution.
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Scientists have uncovered the fossil skeleton of a robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
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Blog: Paleontologists have found that precursors to dinosaurs weren't so rapidly replaced as previously thought.
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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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A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.