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10 2009By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: October 8, 2009
The “early bird” Archaeopteryx may not be a bird, after all.
The first fossil of the raven-size species was an immediate sensation when it was excavat...
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10 2009A chicken-size dinosaur sporting four wings may have glided through the skies some 155 million years ago, researchers say based on exceptionally well-preserved remains of the feathered beast.
The first specime...
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09 2009
BRISTOL, England — A newly described, profusely feathered dinosaur may give lift to scientists’ understanding of bird and flight evolution, researchers report. The lithe creature, which stood about 28 centimeter...
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09 2009Inspired by the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, the Bookworm celebrate the importance of great ideas, and the role of science in shaping the way we view the world, and schedule a series of talks -"Evo...
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11 2009
00:01 03 November 2009 by Phil McKenna
The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa.
Jin Changzhu and colleagues...
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08 2009
Already 40,000 years ago people fed themselves to a large degree on fish.
The isotopic analysis of a bone from one of the earliest modern humans in Asia, the 40,000 year old skeleton from Tianyuan Cave in the ...
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07 2009
Richard Stone
ZHOUKOUDIAN, CHINA—On a sweltering late June day, Zhang Xiaoling hunches under a makeshift canvas roof over one of Asia`s most famous Stone Age sites. It`s roasting in the shelter, but Zhang, a ...
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06 2009Reinforcement has begun at the Peking Man site to prevent one of its walls from collapsing.
The protective excavation, which started Wednesday, focuses on the west section of the cave where the first Peking Ma...
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06 2009The UNESCO world heritage site, the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, a Beijing suburb, is undergoing a clean up and excavation project. It is the first excavation in 72 years, and its main purpose is to improve the...
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06 2009On June 24, a large-scale protective excavation was launched on the Peking man site at Zhoukoudian, which is famous for its human fossils discovered - the skull cap of the Peking man. This is the first large-scale...
