Flying reptiles came in miniature
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A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than 30cm (1ft) has been discovered in China.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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NEW YORK -- During the age of dinosaurs, tiny squirrel-like creatures climbed trees and jumped into the darkness. Then they spread their limbs and glided away -- the first known mammals to take to the air, a new report says.
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A newly discovered Triassic reptile that has a neck much longer than its body is reopening a question long thought settled: what good is a long neck?
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Was it a bird, was it a plane....? Paleontologists have unearthed a T-Rex-sized "bird dinosaur", dubbed Gigantoraptor erlianensis. The beast, which lived 65 million years ago, stood five metres tall, was eight metres long, and would have weighed in at around 1.5 tonnes.â¦
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By Chen Liang  In "The Age of Dinosaurs," it was not just birds and pterosaurs (winged reptiles) that flew as thought till now  there was also a "flying squirrel" which could glide down from treetops like a bat.
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More than a hundred species of tiny land-breeding frogs in the Caribbean evolved from a single South American species that probably hitched a ride on a raft of vegetation and washed up on an island beach, according to scientists who spent decades collecting tissues from the colorful hoppers.
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MONTEREY, Calif. - A menagerie, some 86 critters in all, were found in a Fort Ord home.
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I saw it when I popped the lid of the supers - I couldn't have missed it, being nearly the size of my palm.  A common orb spider, hiding in these old unused honey supers.  It and about eighty more of its kind have built webs all around my equipment.  I spent the most of a week fighting them.  Now I see that there are some important lessons to be learned.
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New research reveals the Bristol dinosaur lived on small subtropical islands and not in a desert environment as first thought.
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The newest addition to the Tennessee Aquarium is a recently hatched rare turtle of an endangered species displayed in only a few places in North America.
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Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday said.
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By SCOTT TURNER  OUR ORDINARY city street was host to an extraordinary caller this summer: a ruby-throated hummingbird. The average ruby throat weighs about an eighth of an ounce.
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A new fossil of a juvenile dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago is shedding light on how the ancient reptiles grew from youngsters to enormous adults.
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A pterodactyl so small that you could hold it in your hand glided in forest canopies in northeastern China where it feasted on insects 120 million years ago, new fossil remains suggest.
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Chris Austin&rsquo;s fieldwork takes him to some of the most inaccessible places on Earth in the pursuit of knowledge about the diversity of the world&rsquo;s amphibians and reptiles. He serves as assistant curator of Herpetology and assistant professor of Biological Science at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science. This story relates some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of field work in remote New Guinea.
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Animatronic droid lothario goes undercover to help breeding programme New Zealand boffins have deployed an undercover robotic reptile into the wild in order to boost the success of gender-bending creature breeding programmes, it has emerged.â¦