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04 2019
Together with their Chinese colleagues, Senckenberg scientists studied the feeding habits of the Asian elephant and its extinct relative, the stegodon, during the Pleistocene. They reached the conclusion that the ...
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04 2019
FOUR TEETH FOUND in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads.
In 1972 and 1983, researchers extracted the roughly 200,000-year-old teeth from the silty sediments of ...
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03 2019
BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A group of scientists have discovered a fossil bird dating back about 110 million years, which is the first ever found to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen.
The fossil represents ...
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03 2019
BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Fish fossils, dating back about 425 million years ago, are providing insights into the evolution of scales on bony fishes.
Diversified scales are one of the most obvious exterior ...
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10 2018
By April ReeseOct. 23, 2018 , 7:01 PM
In the oxygen-poor air of the Mesozoic era, nothing should have been able to move very fast. But Velociraptors could run 64 kilometers per hour. Their secret weapon: super...
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09 2018
Paleontologists in China have discovered a new species of fossil bird that they say reveals a pivotal point in the evolution of flight, when birds had lost the long bony tail seen in dinosaurs such as Tyrannosauru...
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08 2018
Two new dinosaurs discovered in China may help solve the long mystery of how some of these creatures reduced and lost their "fingers" through evolution.
Flexible fingers have helped primates hunt and gather fo...
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08 2018
There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak. A newly-discovered fossil turtle that lived 228 million years ago is shedding light on how modern tu...
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07 2018
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed on a hillside in northwestern China are forcing scientists to rethink the history of a dinosaur lineage that produced the largest animals ever to walk th...
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07 2018
LONDON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of a sauropod species have been newly discovered in China, which might change how researchers think these dinosaurs evolved, and how entire continents were linked 174 million ye...
