U.S. seizes fossil dinosaur eggs
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Customs agents have seized fossilized dinosaur eggs believed to have been smuggled illegally from China and auctioned for $420,000, officials said Thursday.
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A fossil tour doesn't have to mean an aging rock band's reunion concerts. The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's most famous fossils &#151; the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 &#151; to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time.
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Amateurism is getting a good name, courtesy of three dinosaur enthusiasts who have uncovered a rich clutch of fossilized eggs.
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A 121 million-year-old baby bird,  fossilized while still curled in its egg, has been found in China.
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Near the sprawl of the Capital Beltway, an amateur paleontologist found what he says are the first footprints ever uncovered of a 6-foot-long plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 100 million years ago.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. They have been covered in plaster jackets and will be flown out of the remote area to the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City.
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Fossilized orchid pollen on the back of  a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that  these delicate flowers existed around the time of the  dinosaurs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island, scientists reported Monday.
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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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Contrary to the movie Jurassic Park, in which scientists recreate dinosaurs from ancient DNA, genetic material more than about 50 thousand years old cannot be reliably recovered.
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A herd of fossilised infant dinosaurs killed in a volcanic mudflow are found in China.
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WASHINGTON - A newly discovered fossil may be the remains of one of the first stealth hunters, a swimming dinosaur that could use its long neck to sneak up on prey and strike without warning.
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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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An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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Palaeontologists have fired a broadside over a fossil which is the cornerstone evidence to back the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.
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The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered.