Flying Mammal Found From 125 Million Years Ago
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An animal the size of a small squirrel experimented with aerial life about the same time as birds, scientists said.
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Paleontologists have discovered a new  small gliding reptile in 220 million-year-old sediments of a quarry on the Virginia-North Carolina border. The new creature is named Mecistotrachelos apeoros, meaning &quot;soaring, long-necked&quot; and is about the size of a blue jay from head to tail.
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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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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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Scientists in China have found a 120 million-year-old fossil of a baby bird which is believed to have died just before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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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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One of the most startling discoveries in the study of human origins -- the uncovering of a vanished species of dwarf proto-humans who inhabited a Pacific island just 18,000 years ago -- is being reported in today&#39;s issue of the journal Nature.
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Mammals took to the skies at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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In China, scientists have identified the fossilized remains of a tiny dinosaur in the stomach of a mammal. Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago.
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The fossil of a big-eyed, fishlike reptile that lived 100 million years ago was discovered in a box that had been stashed away in a Canadian lab for 25 years.
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Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, used both its feathered forelimbs and hind limbs to glide from trees, according to a new analysis of fossils found in the 1800s.
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The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.