Long-necked sea monster resurfaces after 230 million years
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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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IT is one of only two complete specimens ever known to be found - and it is causing a stir. The 7m-long Longman&#39;s beaked whale, which washed up on a beach at Byron Bay, was last seen in Australia in 1882.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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The creature, named Junggarsuchus sloani, was a three-foot-long [one-meter-long] sphenosuchianâone of a class of small, slender, land-dwelling crocodilians that lived from about 230 million to 150 million years ago.
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The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles is found in  rocks dating back 315 million years.
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A spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines protruding from its armored body prowled the ocean floor half a billion years ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth, scientists said.
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Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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A group of paleontologists have discovered the tusks and petrified remains of a mastodon, or large mammoth-like mammal, that lived some three million years ago, the head of the team told AFP Monday.
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The blue whale, possibly the largest animal ever to live on Earth, is making a comeback, research shows.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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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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By Unnati Gandhi  Paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft- bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is the history of life on Earth.
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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.