A Daddy Longlegs Tells the Story of the Continentsâ Big Shifts
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These sesame seed sized creatures carry a record of hundreds of millions of years of geological history.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear except about half the size, scientists said.
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Large, carnivorous dinosaurs roamed  southern Australia 115 million years ago, when the continent  was joined to the Antarctica, and were padded with body fat to  survive temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a global snapshot shows.
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A mild mania for the tropics grips Alexander Frater and animates his diverting, loose-limbed tour of the earthâs hot zones.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used such unusually long appendages.
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THE DISCOVERY: A University of Pittsburgh geology student on a field trip stumbles across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature that lived about 300 million years ago.
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Once upon a time, but not so long ago, on a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia, there lived a race of little people, whose adults stood just three and a half feet high.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Ian Desai was so curious about maps he found in a book that he retraced the ancient voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, one of the most enduring Greek fables.
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Scientists from the US reconstruct a 40,000-year record of climate change at the South Pole.
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Four years ago, on the other side of the world, Doug Mientkiewicz's life was about to change.
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A new study is the latest salvo in a long-standing debate over what wiped out the giant elephantlike animals.
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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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Big evolutionary insights sometimes come in little packages. Witness the startling discovery, in a cave on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, of the partial skeleton of a half-size Homo species that