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Fossils Of Ancient Crocodile-Like Reptile Found In Brazil
A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs.
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Fossils Of "Sea Phantom" Flying Reptile Found In Australia
Scientists have announced the discovery in the Australian state of Queensland of fossils of a creature which lived alongside the dinosaurs and various marine reptiles during the Cretaceous Period.
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Scientists Discover 240-Million-Year-Old "Chinese Dragon"
Scientists said the animal is similar to Tanystropheus hydroides, a marine reptile from the Middle Triassic period.
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Fossil Of Unique Flying Reptile From Middle Jurassic Period Discovered On Scottish Island
This pterosaur, named Ceoptera, lived approximately 168-166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period.
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Oldest Fossils Of Remarkable Marine Reptiles Found In Arctic
Researchers said they have found remains of the earliest-known ichthyosaur, which lived approximately 2 million years after Earth's worst mass extinction that ended the Permian Period
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Car-Sized Turtle Fossils Discovered In Spain
Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters.
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Giant Tooth Of Ancient Marine Reptile Discovered In Alps
The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a study said Thursday.
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Fossil Reveals Unique Feature Of Dinosaur That Roamed Africa 150 Million Years Ago
Dinosaurs roamed Earth millions of years ago but little was known about them outside the scientific community till the early 90s. Interesting details about these prehistoric reptiles are now being discovered after studying dinosaur fossils.
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How Mammals Became Good Listeners? New Fossils Reveal
Modern mammals, including humans, owe their keen sense of hearing to three tiny bones in the middle ear that were absent in their reptile ancestors, but the point at which this transformation occurred has remained unclear.
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Scientists Finally Find 240-Million-Year-Old 'Mother Of All Lizards'
Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, lizards and legless worm-looking creatures known as amphisbaenians, is the largest order of living land vertebrates on the planet.
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Jaw Fossil Found On English Beach Belongs To Monstrous Marine Reptile
A jawbone fossil found on a rocky English beach belongs to one of the biggest marine animals on record, a type of seagoing reptile called an ichthyosaur that scientists estimated at up to 85 feet (26 meters) long - approaching the size of a blue whale.
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Scientists Discover India's Oldest Fossil Of A Jurassic Sea Monster
Call it what you wish: fish lizard, sea monster, ichthyosaur. After tens of millions of years, and then 1,500 hours of digging, paleontologists in India have unearthed the strikingly intact skeleton of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile more than five meters (about 16 feet) long that resembled modern dolphins and whales.
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First Jurassic-Era 'Fish Lizard' Fossil Found In India
In a first, a near- complete fossilised skeleton of a Jurassic ichthyosaur - large marine reptile which lived alongside dinosaurs - has been discovered in India, scientists said. Fossil records of ichthyosaurs, which means 'fish lizards' in Greek, have been found in North American and Europe previously. However, in the Southern Hemisphere, they hav...
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Forget Eggs - 245 Million Years Ago, This Long-Necked Sea Creature Gave Birth To Live Babies
A quarter of a billion years ago, when a shallow sea covered what is now southwest China, a large, long-necked aquatic reptile got pregnant. That is an unusual fact by modern standards - many reptiles, such as birds, turtles and crocodiles, do not get pregnant, which is to say they do not incubate embryos within their bodies and give birth to live ...
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Scientists Reconstruct Baffling 250-Million-Year-Old Aquatic Reptile With A Strange Hammerhead Mouth
Not all scientific insights require a $1.1-billion experiment to observe gravity waves, or demand a giant particle collider be buried under Europe. Sometimes all that's needed are a few bucks worth of modeling clay and toothpicks -- and, well, a pair of priceless 250-million-year-old fossils.
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Fossils Of Ancient Crocodile-Like Reptile Found In Brazil
A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs.
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Fossils Of "Sea Phantom" Flying Reptile Found In Australia
Scientists have announced the discovery in the Australian state of Queensland of fossils of a creature which lived alongside the dinosaurs and various marine reptiles during the Cretaceous Period.
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Scientists Discover 240-Million-Year-Old "Chinese Dragon"
Scientists said the animal is similar to Tanystropheus hydroides, a marine reptile from the Middle Triassic period.
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Fossil Of Unique Flying Reptile From Middle Jurassic Period Discovered On Scottish Island
This pterosaur, named Ceoptera, lived approximately 168-166 million years ago during the Middle Jurassic period.
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Oldest Fossils Of Remarkable Marine Reptiles Found In Arctic
Researchers said they have found remains of the earliest-known ichthyosaur, which lived approximately 2 million years after Earth's worst mass extinction that ended the Permian Period
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Car-Sized Turtle Fossils Discovered In Spain
Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters.
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Giant Tooth Of Ancient Marine Reptile Discovered In Alps
The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species, a study said Thursday.
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Fossil Reveals Unique Feature Of Dinosaur That Roamed Africa 150 Million Years Ago
Dinosaurs roamed Earth millions of years ago but little was known about them outside the scientific community till the early 90s. Interesting details about these prehistoric reptiles are now being discovered after studying dinosaur fossils.
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How Mammals Became Good Listeners? New Fossils Reveal
Modern mammals, including humans, owe their keen sense of hearing to three tiny bones in the middle ear that were absent in their reptile ancestors, but the point at which this transformation occurred has remained unclear.
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Scientists Finally Find 240-Million-Year-Old 'Mother Of All Lizards'
Here's a fact you should know about the world in which you live: It's home to more kinds of scaly reptiles than all the mammal families combined. The reptile order Squamata, which includes snakes, lizards and legless worm-looking creatures known as amphisbaenians, is the largest order of living land vertebrates on the planet.
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Jaw Fossil Found On English Beach Belongs To Monstrous Marine Reptile
A jawbone fossil found on a rocky English beach belongs to one of the biggest marine animals on record, a type of seagoing reptile called an ichthyosaur that scientists estimated at up to 85 feet (26 meters) long - approaching the size of a blue whale.
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Scientists Discover India's Oldest Fossil Of A Jurassic Sea Monster
Call it what you wish: fish lizard, sea monster, ichthyosaur. After tens of millions of years, and then 1,500 hours of digging, paleontologists in India have unearthed the strikingly intact skeleton of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile more than five meters (about 16 feet) long that resembled modern dolphins and whales.
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First Jurassic-Era 'Fish Lizard' Fossil Found In India
In a first, a near- complete fossilised skeleton of a Jurassic ichthyosaur - large marine reptile which lived alongside dinosaurs - has been discovered in India, scientists said. Fossil records of ichthyosaurs, which means 'fish lizards' in Greek, have been found in North American and Europe previously. However, in the Southern Hemisphere, they hav...
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Forget Eggs - 245 Million Years Ago, This Long-Necked Sea Creature Gave Birth To Live Babies
A quarter of a billion years ago, when a shallow sea covered what is now southwest China, a large, long-necked aquatic reptile got pregnant. That is an unusual fact by modern standards - many reptiles, such as birds, turtles and crocodiles, do not get pregnant, which is to say they do not incubate embryos within their bodies and give birth to live ...
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Scientists Reconstruct Baffling 250-Million-Year-Old Aquatic Reptile With A Strange Hammerhead Mouth
Not all scientific insights require a $1.1-billion experiment to observe gravity waves, or demand a giant particle collider be buried under Europe. Sometimes all that's needed are a few bucks worth of modeling clay and toothpicks -- and, well, a pair of priceless 250-million-year-old fossils.
