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It's as long as a school bus, weighs over a ton and has terrifying dagger-like teeth to devour its prey. That's the sort of tyrannosaur we all know, but did you know it was fuzzy? New specimens dug up in northeastern China yield a surprising discovery.
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The fossil of a pregnant ichthyosaur, whose embryos were found scattered around it, has bewildered paleontologists as to how such a thing could happen. One theory is that the creature exploded, but new research in decomposing humans says otherwise.
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New research into one of the creatures which connects dinosaurs to birds, the Microraptor, indicates that the crow-like creature had black feathers. The discovery is an important one for evolutionary science.
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Even some of the most advanced technology in medicine couldn't get Clarisse to give up all her secrets. After all, she's kept protected them for more than 50 million years.
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Meet Lucy's great-grandfather Kadanuumuu, who was found in Ethiopia recently. Scientists say the early hominid skeleton confirms human-like walking is more ancient then we had previously known. Have we found another piece of the missing link?
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In Jerusalem, archaeologists unearthed an enormous wall that probably served as military fortification during the city's Middle Bronze Age armed conflicts.
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In Las Vegas, the auction house Bonhams & Butterfields had announced the auction of the rare Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton arguably one of the most complete dinosaur specimen in the world.
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Researchers from the Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires, Argentina discovered a 30-million year old fossilized dung ball that was food to a number of insects including dung beetles.
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A new discovery in Myanmar might disprove the theory that ancient humans first evolved in Africa. Researchers say their recent fossil discovery proves that the common ancestors of primates evolved in Asia.
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A new genus and species of primate was unveiled today. "Ida," the 47-million-year-old fossil, has both human and non-human characteristics, and has been dubbed the possible "missing link."
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A large extinct penguin has been reconstructed from fossil remains discovered in New Zealand.
 Four sets of mysterious human-like fossils found in China may offer insight into a previously unknown Stone Age people, according to an international team of scientists.
The Today programme's Tom Feilden reports on how new discoveries are shifting the focus of the future of energy away from renewable sources and back onto fossil fuels.
Researchers prove a novel method of determining whether atmospheric CO2 was created by natural sources or by the burning of fossil fuels.
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Lasers lock X-ray beams onto the remains of Clarisse, a 50-million-year-old snake. The fossil was scanned on a 64-slice CT scanner at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, and the resulting images were analyzed by Brazilian paleontologist Hussan Zaher. The snake is part of the collection at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and will go on display in 2012.
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