Longest-necked protorosaur ever unearthed
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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BONES from the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK have been excavated by fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight, according to scientists.
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This conclusion comes from US and Chinese scientists who today announce the discovery of a 130m-year-old forerunner of the lumbering Cretaceous predator.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
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SPACE.com / Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists&mdash;under a pingpong table.
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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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Scientists have uncovered the fossil skeleton of a robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
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Researchers at a museum in central Japan have right whale fossils that are at least 5 million years old, making them the oldest fossilized remains of the animal in the world, officials said.
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An astonishing new fossil uncovered in a remote region of China has overturned accepted views of the relationship between dinosaurs and early mammals.
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Scientists in China have found a 120 million-year-old fossil of a baby bird which is believed to have died just before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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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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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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A freshman geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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French and Chinese paleontologists have identified the fossil of a two-headed reptile from a species that lived in what is now China nearly 150 million years ago.
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A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.
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Scientists working in China have discovered an ancient swimming predator with a neck nearly twice as long as its body. Neck ribs line the reptileâs 5.5-foot-long (1.