Earliest flying mammal discovered
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Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
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Max the stork, currently the oldest animal being tracked by satellite, is flying north after a remarkably short winter sojourn in southern Spain, a natural history museum in Switzerland said Wednesday.
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Researchers reported for the first time last week that they have found the virus in a nonprimate species â bats.
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A new bird species has been found in India, the first time such a discovery has been made here in more than 50 years, an astronomer and keen bird watcher said Tuesday.
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A pterodactyl so small that you could hold it in your hand glided in forest canopies in northeastern China where it feasted on insects 120 million years ago, new fossil remains suggest.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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Two  reptile-like animals living 290 million years ago are the oldest creatures to have  their footprints positively identified after a fortuitous discovery  allowed scientists to match fossils to preserved trackways.
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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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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles is found in  rocks dating back 315 million years.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.
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LONDON - A new species of flightless bird has been discovered on a remote island in the northern Philippines, Filipino and British researchers announced Tuesday.
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Whale fossils found with tiny ear bones reveal for the first time how the ancestors of whales and dolphins developed their acute underwater hearing.
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Australian scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest preserved vertebrate tissue - two morsel-size pieces of muscle from an ancient fossil fish.
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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.
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The most primitive bat ever discovered could fly but not navigate by sound, scientists have reported.
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The earliest known relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had primitive feathers, probably to help it keep warm.