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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...
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06 2018
A young giant panda eats bamboo in the Chengdu Research Base of the Giant Panda Breeding Center in China.
Photograph by Jak Wonderly, National Geographic Creative
In August 2014, paleoanthropologist Yingqi...
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05 2018
We may not see elephants roaming the prairies or forests today, if their distant ancestors had not learned to graze on grass about 16 million years ago. Their active adaption to the environment helped the species ...
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05 2018
Phytoliths of grass and foliage found adhered to a molar of Gomphotherium connexum (bottom-right) from the Miocene deposits of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. The bar chart from the bottom-left indicate relative a...
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05 2018
Leading researcher Fu Qiaomei has made big contributions to genetic analysis of prehistoric humans.
The science of studying the roots of modern people via DNA extracted from the bones of ancient humans - peopl...
