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in the region, this number may not be accurate; it is feasible that the fossils are as young as 104,000. The uncertainty is due to the method by which...

Thursday, August 23, 2007  Researchers say that new, ten million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, prove that the theory that humans may have evolved from...

the "dinosaur of the seas", dates back to the Devonian period, making the fossil the earliest known case of a vertebrate that gave birth to live young. It...

researchers compared bones from fossils of the rodent found in Asia, to bones of a recently found Laotian rock rat. Last summer, a fossil of the same rodent was...

trip in New Zealand have discovered what may be the finest giant penguin fossil yet found. These early penguins stood 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall, weighing...

develop clean-energy, but stressed they will be heavily reliant on polluting fossil-fuels for generations to come. Green groups, labelling the talks a sham...

Advances. The specimen, a piece of amber, was found in a sandstone deposit by fossil hunters who contacted scientists in 2016, and later donated it to the Dexu...

waters," continued the official. This species is a living fossil, having a close resemblance to fossil records of paleozoic sharks. In comparison modern sharks...

response if needed. Additionally, in the report, the authors noted the fossil fuel industry was continuing to set up new mining sites, a concerning trend...

of Wikinews writing Writing an article Researchers have unearthed a new fossil primate that they think may be closely related to the common ancestor of...

species now extinct. The results, from genomic tests in Leipzig, Germany of fossil bone from Siberia, Russia, were published on Wednesday in scientific journal...

Motohiro Yogo, decided to apply an economics model to a well-known marine fossil record in order to predict how fast life can adapt to changes in the environment...

small and as large as an arm have been found. Coral reef fossils, conifer wood debris, fossil wood chunks and thousands of plankton and microbes have been...

has extracted and sequenced a protein from a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil in research that demonstrates a new method of comparing genetic relationships...

Coal miners called in scientists to look at a vast and dense seam of fossils they found in a mine. It is the largest fossilized forest ever to be found...

atmosphere is the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. Consumption has risen 2% per year for this decade. Fossil fuels burnt in factories and automobiles...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The measurements put the fossil, the smallest discovered in North America, at one and a half feet (50 centimetres)...

April 18, 2007 "Fossil from a forest that gave Earth its breath of fresh air" — Times Online, April 18, 2007 "Press Release: Rare Fossil Trees To Be Moved...

Basin that was as big as the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The measurements put the fossil, now named Gigantoraptor elrianensis, at 16 feet tall and 26 feet (8 meters)...

study area, began to appear. The sevengill is sometimes called a living fossil because it closely resembles similar sharks from prehistoric times. Fallows...