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12:32 08 December 2009 by Colin Barras
Holotype of Zhongjianornis yangi gen. et sp. nov. (Image: Zhonghe Zhou and Fucheng Zhang Zhiheng Li)
Fad dieting wasn't an option in the Cretaceous, so the earliest b...
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12 2009
The Chinese government's attempts to curb the black-market trade in dinosaurs and other fossils could restrict scientific research.
By Lewis Smith
Dinosaur fossils in Kunming, southwest China Photo: AFP
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12 2009
The earliest known fossil of a toothless bird that flew across the skies 120 million years ago has been dug up by scientists.
Published: 7:00AM BST 08 Jul 2009
Researchers say their findings, published in ...
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12 2009
By Xie Ying
University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno adds the toe claw to a well-preserved skeleton of the new tyrannosaur Raptorex. The relatively tiny new ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex was report...
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12 2009Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Pa...
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11 2009
Darwin Now in 2009 will include a vibrant programme of activities and a display which will tour four cities in China. Activities will include Darwin and evolution themed workshops, lectures by scientists, Wildscre...
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12 2009
Unearthed dinosaur fossils shed light on the evolutionary process
By TANG YUANKAI
RENOWNED EXPERTISE: Xu Xing, a famous paleobiologist, works at the dinosaur excavation site in Wucaiwan in China's Xinjiang...
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11 2009
By Huo Yan and Huang Feifei (chinadaily.com.cn)
A 110,000 year old incomplete human lower jaw bone was recently found in a cave in Mulan Moutain in the Jiangzhou district of Chongzuo city, in the Guangxi Zhuan...
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10 2009
Some 300 paleoanthropologists gathered in Beijing Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the first complete skull of Peking Man, the homo erectus that lived near Beijing 700,000 years ago...
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Vol 460|27 August 2009 NATURE|Vol 460|27 August 2009
Chinese palaeontologists met government officials in Beijing last week to lobby for strict federal control of fossil specimens. The researchers are working ...
