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04 2009Reporters learned from Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that a miniature bird carving that had been carved from a deer antler about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. Other carvings and semi-...
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03 2009
In trying to make evolutionary sense of the bony fish (and, by extension, land vertebrates) scientists have been hampered by a lack of completeness. Most of the earliest fossils of bony fish, dating to the Siluria...
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03 2009Michael I. Coates
Discovery of an unusually intact and ancient fossil fish provides further evidence that the search for modern vertebrate origins requires breaking out of the Devonian and into the preceding p...
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03 2009BEIJING -- Chinese scientists` discovery of an intact and ancient fish fossil might bring the search for modern vertebrate origins out of the Devonian age (416 to 359 million years ago) and into the preceding peri...
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03 2009
By CHI-CHI ZHANG – 3 days ago
BEIJING (AP) — Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert.
The ...
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03 2009
`Peking Man` Older Than Thought
Science Daily (press release) - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) — A new dating method has found that "Peking Man" is around 200000 years older ...
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03 2009
The age of Homo erectus, known familiarly as Peking Man, has been hotly debated. This week Shen et al. use a recently developed dating technique that computes deposits to be about 770,000 years old — about 3...
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02 200969TH MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, AND 57TH MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY
September 23-26, 2009, Bristol
The Palaeobiology and Biodiversity...
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01 2009
By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer
posted: 12 January 2009 05:00 pm ET
When alive, Beipiaosaurus would have sported shorter feathers on its entire body with tufts of long, broad feathers on its head, tail and...
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01 2009Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Jan. 12, 2009 -- The world`s first feathers probably had nothing to do with flight or staying warm but were instead for showy display purposes, according to a new study that doc...
