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09 2013
Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known species of primate, lived mainly in South China during the Pleistocene. The enormous body size of this taxon, together with its special dietary proclivity and possible rel...
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07 2013
Find Helps Scientists Map Waves of Migration Across the Continents
Kevin Holden Last Modified: 25 Jul 2013 11:20
Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology extracted DNA ...
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06 2013
Platybelodon is a group of extinct Proboscidea with an elongated and flattened mandibular symphysis, known as “Shovel-tusked” elephant. They extended from the early Miocene to middle Miocene of Eurasia, and some...
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07 2013
It is widely accepted that birds are a subgroup of dinosaurs, but there is an apparent conflict: modern birds have been thought to possess only the middle three fingers (digits II-III-IV) of an idealized five-digi...
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07 2013
Tracking the growth of dinosaurs and how they changed as they grew is difficult. Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how on...
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06 2013
In the Tha Chang area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand, several sand pits previously have yielded fossils. The area is 220 km northeast of Bangkok, and the sand pits are located next to the Mun River. The sed...
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06 2013
Microtoid cricetids are widely considered to be the ancestral form of arvicoline rodents, a successful rodent group including voles, lemmings and muskrats. The earliest previously known microtoid cricetid is Micro...
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06 2013
Platybelodon is a group of extinct Proboscidea. They extended from the early Miocene to middle Miocene of Eurasia. Evident also shows that some of them reached North America in the late Miocene. These strange anim...
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06 2013
The alvarezsauroid theropod Linhenykus monodactylus from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China is the first known monodactyl non？avian dinosaur, providing important information on the complex patterns of ...
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06 2013
The late Cretaceous tyrannosaurid Alioramus altai is known from a single specimen whose articulated braincase exhibits a nearly unique combination of preservational quality, subadult stage of growth, and morpholog...
