Gigantic fossil rodent discovered
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The fossilised skull of a one-tonne rodent - the largest ever discovered - is described by scientists.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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A new species of elephant shrew is discovered in Tanzania, scientists report.
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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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Science & environment: 405-year-old discovered off coast of Iceland hailed as longest-lived animal ever discovered.
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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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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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Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday said.
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Two newly discovered fossils show that a few early mammals were as large as a dog and spunky enough to devour juvenile dinosaurs.
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The remains of an enormous, flesh-eating dinosaur that roamed the Earth 70m years ago have been discovered in a remote region of Inner Mongolia.
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An astonishing new fossil uncovered in a remote region of China has overturned accepted views of the relationship between dinosaurs and early mammals.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a rodent the size of a small car which used to forage the South American continent. The 1-ton creature is believed to have been about 3 meters in length and 1.5 meters tall.
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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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Bones from the biggest dinosaur so far reported by scientists in Europe have been discovered in the Isle of Wight. A single neck bone from the 125 million to 130 million-year
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The bizarre-looking, 78-million-year-old dino had horns as large as human arms, and its skull was frilled with spikes the size of sharks' teeth.
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Scientists have found a fossil of a  "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic  graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
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Remains of a dinosaur the size of a double-decker bus have been recognised as belonging to a new species.