World's oldest webbed bird footprint found in South Korea
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The world's oldest fossilized webbed footprints of birds, believed to be 110 million years old, have been found on a South Korean island.
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London - A theory that birds may have had four wings during a stage of their evolution has been given fresh support with the discovery of a new fossil in China.
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By John Noble Wilford  Scientists have discovered an extinct animal the size of a small squirrel that lived in China at least 125 million years ago and soared among the trees.
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A 121 million-year-old baby arboreal bird, fossilised while still curled in its egg, has been found in China, Science magazine reports this week.
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Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, used both its feathered forelimbs and hind limbs to glide from trees, according to a new analysis of fossils found in the 1800s.
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A striking multi-colored bird has   been discovered in India's remote northeast, making it the   first ornithological find in the country in more than half a   century, experts said on Tuesday.
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A 121-million-year-old fossil of an unhatched bird has been found in China. The fossil suggests early bird species, like dinosaurs, were well developed at birth, scientists say.
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The largest bird known to have taken to the skies would have been a remarkable glider, scientists say.
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Science & environment: The most successful revival of a British bird species notches up another two records.
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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.
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Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
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Archaeologists digging in western Japan have excavated what they believe to be the oldest remains of a melon ever found, an official said Friday.
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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 new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.
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A stork called Max has achieved a world record after spending more than seven years under satellite surveillance, the longest ever duration for an animal, scientists in Switzerland said.
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One of Earth's rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po'ouli.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.