Earliest flying mammal discovered
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Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
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MANILA, Philippines - Filipino and British wildlife researchers say they&#39;ve stumbled upon what appears to be a new species of flightless bird found only on the tiny forested island of Calayan in the northern ...
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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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The largest bird known to have taken to the skies would have been a remarkable glider, scientists say.
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Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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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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The Calayan Rail, Gallirallus calayaensis, discovered by scientists in the northern tip of Babuyan islands in the Philippines archipelago. Photo: Des Allen/AP.
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A new species of flying fox or fruit bat has been discovered on an island south of Manila, it was reported Monday.
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Scientists have created a  salamander-like robot that married biology and robotics and  enabled them to explore ideas about the first vertebrates that  emerged from water to land hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Manila - A new species of flightless bird has been discovered living on a tiny island in the northern Philippines where the inhabitants formerly ate them, scientists and birdwatchers said on Tuesday.
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Penguins were waddling and swimming  in warm locales tens of millions of years earlier than  previously thought, according to scientists who described on  Monday fossils of two previously unknown types found in Peru.
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Computer analysis of an African fossil indicates that a human-like creature walked upright six million years ago&#151;the earliest evidence of bipedalism found to date.
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WASHINGTON - 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.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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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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Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes.