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06 2013
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05 2013
Early bird? Artist's reconstruction (right) of a claimed 160-million-year-old avian skeleton (left) found in China.
Credit: (fossil, left) Thierry Hubin/IRSNB; (reconstruction, right) Masato Hattori
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03 2013
Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might ...
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03 2013
Exquisite bird fossils reveal egg-producing ovary
Early avians lost one of two ovaries to take flight
Brian Switek
This fossil specimen of an ancient enantiornithes shows circular structures thought to...
18
03 2013
The Early Bird Loses an Ovary
by Sid Perkins
The follicles (close-up, inset) preserved in the fossilized ovary of this 125-million-year-old bird (main image), provide insights into the reproductive biology...
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03 2013
ZHENGZHOU, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese paleoanthropologists have given the name Luanchuan Man to Homo erectus fossil specimens discovered in central China's Henan Province.
The fossilized teeth of an early hum...
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11 2012
Nidhi Subbaraman
31 October 2012
A near-complete skeleton found in China has been identified as a new species of flying fish.
A fish from China has displaced its European relatives to become the oldest...
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09 2012
China's dinosaur hunter: The ground breaker
As he revolutionizes ideas about dinosaur evolution, Xing Xu is helping to make china into a palaeontological powerhouse.
Kerri Smith1
05 September 2012
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04 2012
A group of ancient fish, called coelacanths, have changed so little over time they are known as "living fossils." Now, the remains of a skull found in the Yunnan Province of China, confirms these creatures have be...
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03 2012
By Kate Wong | March 22, 2012
Replica of one of the Peking Man fossils. Image: Yan Li, via Wikimedia Commons
In the 1930s archaeologists working at the site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing recovered an incredi...
