Researchers in China and the United Kingdom have identified the first convincing set of pieces of evidence hinting at an unusual and controversial type of evolution, when they have discovered the remains of a peculiar flying lizard. The animal seems to have been in the habit of hunting other flying creatures during i... |
14 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Anthropologists and biologists have long hypothesized that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs, which evolved and developed flight capabilities as an adaptation to their surrounding, or as a form of defense. However, a major gap in the theory was, until now, the fact that archaeological digs failed to uncov... |
18 June 2009
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A fossil discovered in Germany has the potential to change the way we look at our own evolutionary pattern, its discoverers say. The 47-million-year-old “missing link” is about 20 times older than any of the other preserved remains of our ancestors, and it's also 95 percent complete, which means that... |
20 May 2009
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A new turtle fossil, unearthed in China, proves that the animal indeed evolved its underside shell before the one on its back, according to the anthropologists who had the opportunity of looking at the find. Estimated at about 220 million-years old, the most primitive turtle ever discovered was most likely a swimmer,... |
27 November 2008
09:30 GMT |
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The fossil of an animal that lived on Earth some 290 million years ago, having features resembling those of frogs and salamanders alike, has been found during the 1990s in Texas by a paleontologist and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution. The fossil remained in the collection of the National Museum of Natural... |
22 May 2008
05:33 GMT |
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