Brazil Finds New Europe-Related Dinosaur Species
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Scientists have foundwell-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closestrelatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists saidon Thursday.
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Penguins were waddling and swimming  in warm locales tens of millions of years earlier than  previously thought, according to scientists who described on  Monday fossils of two previously unknown types found in Peru.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.
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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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The biggest dinosaur yet found in the UK is unearthed by fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight.
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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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SPACE.com / Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists&mdash;under a pingpong table.
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Fossils  uncovered in New Mexico  show dinosaurs co-existed with a closely related group of reptiles for millions  of years before overtaking them to become the dominant land animals on Earth.
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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Brazilian paleontologists said  on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of  prehistoric predator that represented a "missing link" to  modern-day crocodiles.
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CLEVELAND - A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.
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Today researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ancient reptile. The 230-million-year-old remains of the long-necked, aquatic predator were found in China.
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The fossilised remains of a giant bird-like dinosaur have been uncovered in the region of Inner Mongolia, China.
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Paleontologists say they have discovered the fossil remains of a duck-size dinosaur species, previously unknown to science, that died while catching some z's.