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12 2008Fossils of the oldest-known turtles, unearthed in southwestern China, may help answer an evolutionary enigma—how did the turtle get its shell?
The 220-million-year-old animals did not have full shells, or car...
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12 2008ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2008) — With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be.
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11 2008
FAST MOVING FRONTS - 2008
November 2008
Zhonghe Zhou talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month`s Fast Moving Front in the field of Multidisciplinary. The author has also...
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11 2008Paleontologists in China have discovered the fossils of a pigeon-sized feathered dinosaur that was bird-like in many ways, including that it possibly used its plumage to attract mates.
Epidexipteryx, a new fea...
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11 2008By James Morgan
The fossil of a "bizarre" feathered dinosaur from the era before birds evolved has been discovered in China.
Epidexipteryx was very bird-like, with four long ribbon-like tail feathers - pro...
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11 200812:25 23 October 2008 by Jeff Hecht
A pigeon-sized, flightless dinosaur that may have lived before Archaeopteryx had a body covered with short downy feathers and four spectacular display feathers on its tail.
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11 2008Beijing, October 19-23, 2009
FIRST CIRCULAR
Dear colleagues,
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the discovery of the first skull of Peking Man, the International Symposium on Paleoanthropology...
