Tracks suggest dinos could swim
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Underwater footprints reveal that some dinosaurs were capable of swimming, scientists report.
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WASHINGTON -- A newly discovered fossil might 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 newly discovered fossil could 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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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Scientists on Thursday announced the fossil discovery of a very odd creature that swam the oceans 230 million years ago. It looked sort of like a dinosaur, but actually was another type of reptile.
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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 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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A new fossil find suggests that the crocodile's crushing jaws evolved on dry land&#151;and long before its water-friendly body.
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Fossilised remains found in southern China may hold the answer to a question that has long stumped palaeontologists: Just what is the purpose of the long neck on a group of predatory reptiles that roamed the earth millions of years ago?
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The mystery of how a type of lizard "walks" on water may have been solved, a group of US scientists believe.
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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By Chen Liang  In "The Age of Dinosaurs," it was not just birds and pterosaurs (winged reptiles) that flew as thought till now  there was also a "flying squirrel" which could glide down from treetops like a bat.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites.
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New research reveals the Bristol dinosaur lived on small subtropical islands and not in a desert environment as first thought.
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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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PARIS: A team led by the world&#39;s most successful fossil hunter said that they have found the remains of a feathery dragon-like forerunner of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex at a dinosaur graveyard in northeastern China.