Scientists plan Jurassic archive
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Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever.
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IQALUIT, NUNAVUT - A paleontologist has uncovered the fossilized remains of a giant carnivorous dinosaur in Nunavut. Hans Larsson of Montreal&#39;s McGill University found the remains while scanning the tundra and rock formations for fossils.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
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The fossil remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible "missing link" between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.
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Nevada's state fossil, the giant ocean-roaming fish-reptile known as the ichthyosaur, will have to share the scientific stage after researchers this week unveiled the first fossils of land-based dinosaurs ever found in Nevada.
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By Peters, Shanan E  Unfossiliferous marine sedimentary rocks of Phanerozoic age are known to all field-oriented paleontologists.
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SPACE.com / Paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia, who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs, recently found 67 dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert in just one week.
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Scientists in China have found a 120 million-year-old fossil of a baby bird which is believed to have died just before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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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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A fossil of a new crab species reveals the itsy-bitsy crustaceans inhabited towering sponge reefs during the Jurassic Period, where they made tasty snacks for ichthyosaurs and other ancient reptiles.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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Chilean teenagers on a  field trip have found what experts say could be a treasure  trove of fossils from whales which died millions of years ago.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.