Protorosaur which came out of the gloom
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By the time its prey knew it was coming, it was probably far too late. Cruising murky coastal waters in search of food, the creature made magnificent use of its slender neck, nearly twice the length of its
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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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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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WASHINGTON - The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday.
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A UK-African team describes a new primitive dinosaur species from the Late Triassic - about 210 million years ago.
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The ascent of the dinosaurs to the  throne of the animal kingdom may have been more gradual than  previously believed, scientists said on Thursday.
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Dinosaurs may not all have been the terrifying creatures portrayed in blockbuster films but could have had a more caring, loving nature.
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Scientists have created a  salamander-like robot that married biology and robotics and  enabled them to explore ideas about the first vertebrates that  emerged from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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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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U.S. scientists have found traces of limbs in the development of primitive ray-finned fishes.  That discovery contradicts the belief that tetrapods -- land-living vertebrates -- have been evolutionary innovations unique to that group.
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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 new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in 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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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes Â yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Correspondent | October 15, 2004. The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released