Fossil found in China may go back 230 million years
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WASHINGTON - A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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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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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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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released 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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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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PITTSBURGH: A geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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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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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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Global warming and not a giant asteroid may have nearly wiped out life on Earth some 250 million years ago, an international team of scientists said on Thursday.
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Chinese palaeontologists have uncovered the most complete fossil yet of an ancestral tyrannosaur, and found that filamentary protofeathers covered its body.
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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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A 27-million-year-old  fossil could be the &ldquo;missing link&rdquo; between modern elephants and their ancestors,  scientists have concluded.
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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An international team of scientists says it was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, some 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.