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01 2009One of the world`s biggest dinosaur graves, in China, has yielded a key discovery: the 2-metre-long skull of a ceratopsid, a close relative of the triceratops. It is the first evidence that ceratopsids lived beyon...
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01 2009The remains of an enormous platypus have been found in China amongst what is believed to be the largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones ever discovered.
Palaeontologists have dug up more than 7,000 bones in...
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01 2009CBC News
A dinosaur fossil field discovered this year in eastern China is being touted as the largest of its kind on earth, according to a Chinese paleontologist.
Scientists have found more than 7,600 foss...
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01 2009
www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-29 20:01:03
JINAN, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A dinosaur fossil field discovered this year in eastern China appears to be the largest in the world, a paleontologist told Xinhua on Monda...
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12 2008By Lin Shujuan (China Daily)
Newly discovered fossils of a primitive turtle species, the oldest of its kind found in the world, gives credence to the belief that turtles originated from an aquatic environment ...
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12 2008Ever wonder how a turtle got its shell? You`re not the only one. Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have long been stumped by the question. But a recently unearthed turtle fossil, the oldest on record, ma...
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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.
Since...
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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...
