Early birds: Why small was beautiful for dino DNA
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The group of dinosaurs that evolved into birds had small genomes, according to a study by US and British biologists that appears on Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of life trapped in tiny drops of Italian amber. The ancient germs lived over 200 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs appeared.
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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
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Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday said.
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A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
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In the search for a missing  evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up  with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with  the body of a small deer.
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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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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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In a June 13 story about archaeologists discovering the fossil of a giant birdlike dinosaur, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a smaller, related dinosaur. The correct spelling is Caudipteryx, not Caudiperyx.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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Darwin's "single-origin" theory gets a boost when scientists unlock the DNA of a Neanderthal skeleton.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered.
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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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Good news for dinosaur fans: There are probably a lot more of them waiting to be discovered. At least, their fossils are.
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Fossil remains of the oldest and smallest known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex, the world&#39;s favorite ferocious dinosaur, have been discovered in China with evidence that its body was cloaked in downy &quot;protofeathers.
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The discovery of remains belonging to a tiny species of ancient human has been hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades.