paleontology
Fluffy rodents twice the size of a gray squirrel survived for tens of thousands of years, and then abruptly disappeared a few thousand years ago
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This discovery could have significant implications for biotechnology applications and scientific understanding of microbial evolution
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The new specimen was recovered from uppermost Cretaceous-aged rocks, some 70 million years old, in Ganzhou City in southern China's Jiangxi Province
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The remarkable completeness and great age of the Little Foot skeleton makes it a crucially important specimen in human origins research
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Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis for better calibration of geological archives of this period
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Not only is the find the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found, it also helped our planet recover from an ice age
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The first-known fossils of tyrannosaur embryos have shed light on the early development of the colossal animals, which could grow to 40 feet in length
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Researchers have now described the first cloacal vent region from a small labrador-sized dinosaur called Psittacosaurus
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Trace fossil reveals more about this ancient creature's behavior
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Otodus megalodon has a rich fossil record, but its biology remains poorly understood like most other extinct sharks because the cartilaginous fish is primarily known only from its teeth
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