55-Million-Year-Old Trail Yields Identity of Amber Producer
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Researchers have found a unique compound, similar to that of a modern tree resin, in amber.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.
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Evidence is emerging from Africa that colours were being used in a symbolic way perhaps 200,000 years ago, a UK scientist claims.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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A Mexican researcher announced the rare find of a tiny tree frog completely preserved in amber on Wednesday that he estimates lived about 25 million years ago.
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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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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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MEXICO CITY - A miner in the state of Chiapas found a tiny tree frog that has been preserved in amber for 25 million years, a researcher said.
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WASHINGTON: Using computer programs, scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental
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Nearly 4 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland could hold the earliest evidence of life on Earth, University of Chicago and Field Museum scientists say.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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A 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of the  earliest child ever found shows the ancient ancestor of modern  humans walked upright but may also have climbed trees,  scientists said on Wednesday.
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A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Scientists reconstruct a sea spider from the faint imprint it left when it fossilised 425 million years ago.