Paleontologists Reconstruct a Monster Frog
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Beelzebufo may be the largest frog that ever lived, weighing more than 10 pounds.
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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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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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A 70-million-year-old fossil of a giant frog has been unearthed in Madagascar by a team of UK and US scientists.
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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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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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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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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 mammals
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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Scientists find what appears to be a cure for the disease that is wiping out many of the world's frog species.
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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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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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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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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A rare, 0.4-inch (1-centimeter) tree frog that could be 25 million years old has been found in a chunk of amber dug up by a Mexican miner, a scientist announced.
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The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long animal would have resembled Nessie, the long-necked creature reported to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness.
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Fossilized foot marks left by a big  meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years  ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were  good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.