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Tulip-shaped creature `discovered in Canada`

Scientists claim to have discovered in the Canadian Rockies a bizarre tulip-shaped creature that liv...

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UK scientists find `lost` Darwin fossils

British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and h...

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Rocks, minerals and fossils expo opens in Mumbai

The 2nd edition of `Rocks, Minerals and Fossils Exhibition`, which began in Mumbai today, will concl...

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Fossils hint at evolution of animal kingdom

Scientists have found fossils that shed light on the evolutionary origin of animals from single-cell...

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Scientists unravel mystery of missing mineral

Scientists have stumbled upon a cache of dolomite in coral reefs, ending a 100-year quest for the mi...

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Fossil fuel dependence will limit global food output

Agriculture can keep pace with the ever growing global demand for food only by reducing its dependen...

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Global carbon emissions up 50 percent

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have gone up by 49 percent over the last t...

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E.Coli may hold key to turning plants into biofuel

Common stomach bug E.coli may hold the key to turning plants into biodiesel, which is hailed as a po...

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Gulf boom is spoiling environment: Study

Manmade islands, booming populations, overfishing and heavy use of fossil fuels have wreaked havoc i...

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First python fossil unearthed in Germany

The fossil of a python dating from about 15 million years ago has been discovered in southern German...

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World has five years to avoid severe warming: IEA

The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and ex...

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Ice Age cave painters were realists

Cave painters during the Ice Age were more like da Vinci than Dali, sketching realistic depictions o...

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New look at fossils yields oldest modern Europeans

A fresh look at fossilized remains has turned up a surprise: the earliest modern people in Europe.

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Remains of 10,000-year-old giant sloth found

Scientists have found bones in Brazil that belonged to a 20-foot-tall sloth that lived some 10,000 y...

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Earliest forms of life began in Australia

Scientists have discovered microscopic fossils, about 3.43 billion years old, in the remote Pilbara ...

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Tiny fossil part reveals biggest-ever pterosaur

Paleontologists have identified a small fossil fragment as being part of the biggest-ever toothed pt...

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Dog fossils `show early relationship with humans`

Palaeontologists have unearthed the remains of three prehistoric dogs a finding they claim could be ...

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New Woolly Rhino fossil discovered in Tibet

Scientists have uncovered the skull of a previously unknown species of ancient rhino.

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Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it`s possible

Microfossils found in Australia show that more than 3.4 billion years ago, bacteria thrived on an Ea...

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Ancient bird fossil found in China

A fossil of a bird dating back to seven million years was discovered in northwest China, Xinhua repo...

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New `Living Fossil` eel species found in Pacific

The small brown fish has very few of the anatomical characteristics of modern eels.

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`Ancient sea monsters gave live birth`

The fossilised plesiosaur, excavated from a site in Kansas, was found to be pregnant and carrying a ...

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Fungi behind extinction of forests 250mn-yrs-ago

The so-called Permian extinction likely was triggered by immense volcanic eruptions in what is now S...

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Rare fossil of sea reptile found on Alaska beach

Alaskan scientists have discovered the fossil of a rare, prehistoric marine reptile that is likely ...

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New Pre-Human Species Fossil Found

Fossil remains found in a cave in South Africa could represent an evolutionary link between apes and...

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Fossil of ‘oldest pregnant lizard’ found

The fossil has proved that some lizards and snakes were giving birth to live young, rather than layi...

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Last dinosaur fossil backs asteroid extinction

The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides further evi...

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Dinos were highly active warm-blooded creatures

Human thighbones have tiny holes – known as the ‘nutrient foramen’ – on the shaft that supply blood ...

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Largest-ever fossil spider from Jurassic era found

Researchers have unearthed the world’s largest known spider fossil from the Inner Mongolian region o...

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Weird marsupial fossils `discovered`

Palaeontologists have discovered fossils of marsupials alike to the pink-tongued skink lizard.

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Ancient fossils hold clues to predicting climate change

Geo-scientists and colleagues have been able to construct an ancient climate record from fossils.

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Fossil of 300-mn-yr-old flying insect discovered

Scientists have discovered the fossil of a flying insect that got stuck in mud more than 300 mn year...

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`Jurassic Park` coming up in Gujarat

A dinosaur fossil park will soon come up at Kheda district`s Rayoli village in Gujarat.

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Five-year-old finds 160 million-year-old fossil

A five-year-old girl in Britain found a the fossil while digging with her plastic beach spade.

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First dinosaur fossil discovered in Angola

The fossil was found along with fish and shark teeth in what would have been a sea bed 90 mn yrs ago...

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635 mn-yr-old seaweed fossils

Scientists have discovered almost 600 million-year-old seaweed fossils in Lantian, China.

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190 mn-yr-old bird-hipped dino fossils found in Antarctic mountains

The remains came from a site on Mt Kirkpatrick, which divides east and west Antarctica.

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How snakes lost their legs

The internal architecture of an ancient snake`s leg bones strongly resembles that of modern terrestr...

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Fossilized ancient rabbit skull

The fossilized skull of an ancient rabbit is on display in Beijing.

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Fossil haul shows life`s recovery after near-extinction

A haul of nearly 20,000 fossils belonged to an ancient marine ecosystem have been found in China.

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Scientists probe fossil of biggest ever sea predator

Scientists are probing into fossilised skull of the biggest and the most fearsome sea monster that e...

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Oldest fossils discovered in western Mediterranean

Spanish researchers have discovered fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 mi...

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How snakes` syringe-like venom fangs evolved

Scientists are analysing fossils to understand how syringe-like teeth evolved in snakes.

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Fossilized teeth of cavemen found in central China

Archaeologists have unearthed fossilized teeth of cavemen dating back 100,000 years.

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Complete mammoth skeleton found

Archaeologists in New Mexico have discovered what they believe is a complete mammoth skeleton.

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Early modern human fossil found in China

The well-dated human fossils in southern China markedly changes perceptions about the emergence of m...

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Fossil of first plant to grow on land found

A 472 mn-yr-old fossil of the first plant to grow on land has been discovered in Argentina.

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Fossil of first plant to grow on land found

Scientists have discovered a 472 million-year-old fossil of the first plant to grow on land.

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Fossil of new dinosaur species found in China

The fossils of a dinosaur species - a meat-eating theropod - has been found in China.

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Hepatitis B virus may be over 19-mn-year-old

Biologists found fragments of the modern Hepatitis B virus inside the genomes of songbirds.

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