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12 2017
A spectacular fossil find is providing tantalizing new clues about the habits of pterosaurs, ancient flying reptiles that lived at the same times as dinosaurs. The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bon...
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10 2017
Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey day of dinosaurs, according to a specimen from China.
Features such as fused bones were thought to be present o...
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10 2017
The evolutionary story we have written to explain our ancestors’ move from sea to land may need a rethink. A fossil fish from this era has been discovered with several of the features of land animals – yet it wa...
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09 2016
"Stunning" find shows that Homo sapiens reached Asia around 100,000 years ago
By Ewen Callaway, Nature magazine
These 47 human teeth, dated to 80,000-120,000 years ago, were found in a limestone cave syste...
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06 2017CHANGCHUN, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of a complete crocodile and bones belonging to at least six different dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, 145 to 66 million years ago, have been excavated in northeast China...
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07 2016
Fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about the evolution of modern humans and our closest relatives.
12 July 2016
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The reconstructed skull of Peking Man, the fossil that launched...
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05 2016
By Will DunhamReuters May 6, 2016
The left lower jaw of Yunnanadapis folivorus, one of six new fossil primate species found in southern China, is pictured in this undated handout photo. Xijun Ni/Chinese Academ...
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05 2016
Interspecies sex between ancient humans and Neanderthals – a relative of our ancestors who had smaller figure and low, flat, elongated skulls like dwarfs in the in The Lord of the Rings – had given 1.6 to 1.8 pe...
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11 2015
A teeny-tiny fossilized bird skeleton is helping researchers understand the explosive rate at which birds diversified after the dinosaur age, new research shows.
The newfound skeleton dates back to about 62.5 ...
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11 2015
The discovery of a number of fossils at a site in northwestern China was a closely guarded secret for nearly 10 years. Now, the ancient relicts are set to go on display, as Cheng Yingqi reports from Hami prefectur...
