Ancient polar bear jawbone found
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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GRAY, Tenn.  - Scientists uncovered a second fossil of a red panda species first discovered at the Gray Fossil Site two years ago. Researchers from East Tennessee State University found a lower jawbone from a red panda of the Pristinailurus bristoli species last week.
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Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.
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Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face.
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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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Vienna - The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.
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A baby mammoth found almost intact in the permafrost of north-western Siberia is unveiled.
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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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A dino-era graveyard of large, predatory sea reptiles has been found by fossil hunters, including the remains of an estimated 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) beast dubbed "the Monster."&#149; Arctic sea monster images >>
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A husband-wife fossil-hunting team in Spain has excavated the skeleton of a 13 million-year-old creature they believe is close to the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
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Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a short-necked plesiosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile the size of a bus, that they believe is the first complete skeleton ever found.
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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy