Tiny dinosaur fossil is found in China
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As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes Â yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life.
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A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.
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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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The remains of a 230-million-old marine reptile with fangs and a long neck are unearthed by fossil hunters in southeast China.
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A fossil dinosaur caught sleeping with its head tucked under its forearm has been discovered by Chinese scientists.
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An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man.
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The remains of a giant, birdlike dinosaur as tall as the formidable tyrannosaur have been found in China, a surprising discovery that indicates a more complicated evolutionary process for birds than originally thought, scientists said Wednesday.
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The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda was been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L. Ciochon in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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LONDON - Fossil hunters have gained a glimpse of a new species of dinosaur catching some zzz&#39;s. The 130-million-year old Mei long, which means &quot;soundly sleeping dragon,&quot; was found near Beipiao City in Liaoning province, northeastern China.
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The fossils of six young dinosaurs found together in a ânurseryâ in northeast China show that these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought.
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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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Scientists have found well-preserved fossils of a new dinosaur species that lived 225 million years ago in southern Brazil but had its closest relatives in what is now Europe, Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday.
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Today researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ancient reptile. The 230-million-year-old remains of the long-necked, aquatic predator were found in China.
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Paleontologists say they have discovered the fossil remains of a duck-size dinosaur species, previously unknown to science, that died while catching some z's.
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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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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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A pterodactyl so small that you could hold it in your hand glided in forest canopies in northeastern China where it feasted on insects 120 million years ago, new fossil remains suggest.