Oldest Horseshoe Crab Fossil Discovered
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Nearly a half a billion years ago, tiny horseshoe crabs crept along the shorelines much like today's larger versions do, new fossil evidence suggests.
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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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A 53-million-year-old spider is revealed in exquisite detail by scientists from the UK and Belgium.
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Two previously unknown types of meat-eating dinosaur have been identified from Sahara desert fossils.
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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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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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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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Canadian scientists named a new species of ancient marine reptile Ping Pong Ichthyosaur for the spot where the prehistoric fossil was stored for 25 years.
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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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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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As recovery teams examined the mangled NASA Genesis probe lodged in the floor of Utah&#39;s west desert earlier this month, a crew member spotted a horseshoe in the sand.
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Scientists from the  United States and Argentina have recovered the fossil skeleton  of a young plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that lived some 70  million years ago -- in Antarctica, institutes from both  countries said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON - The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda was been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L.
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Paleontologists have discovered a new  small gliding reptile in 220 million-year-old sediments of a quarry on the Virginia-North Carolina border. The new creature is named Mecistotrachelos apeoros, meaning &quot;soaring, long-necked&quot; and is about the size of a blue jay from head to tail.
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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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WASHINGTON -- 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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Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed bones belonging to the biggest dinosaur ever found in the UK.