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'Living fossil' mouse found on Cyprus
AP   Friday, 13 October 2006

This undated image made available by the University of Durham shows a new species of mouse Mus cypriacus. The 'living fossil' mouse has a bigger head, ears, eyes and teeth than other European mice and is found only on Cyprus, Thomas Cucchi, a research fellow at Durham University in northeast England, said Thursday Oct. 12, 2006. Genetic tests confirmed that the new mouse was a new species and it was named Mus cypriacus, or the Cypriot mouse. (AP Photo/Durham University/ho)AP - Using DNA testing, scientists have discovered what is believed to be the first terrestrial mammal found in Europe in decades: a mouse with a big head, ears, eyes and teeth that lives in a mountainous area of Cyprus.


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Fossil embryos caught in the act of dividing
Reuters   Friday, 13 October 2006
Reuters - Six hundred million years ago, in what is now China, a small, sponge-like animal laid eggs that started to divide into embryos.
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T-Rex of the oceans rises up out of time
AFP   Monday, 09 October 2006
AFP - The small fragments of bone are spread out on a workbench in tiny pieces that could fit into a matchbox, betraying the size of their owner: a fearsome sea predator considered the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the oceans.
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"Monster" fossil found in Jurassic graveyard
Reuters   Friday, 06 October 2006

An artist's impression of a 'Monster' fish-like reptile (bottom ), whose fossil was found on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, off Norway, catching a smaller plesiosaur, in this image from the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.


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Fossils of giant sea reptiles found in Arctic
AFP   Friday, 06 October 2006

This photo from 2004 shows Dr Jorn H. Hurum excavating a Kimmerosaurus, a plesiosaur, in the Svalbard archipelago. Norwegian researchers have found a wealth of fossils in the Arctic from giant reptiles that swam the seas at the same time as dinosaurs, including a rare predator described as the "Tyrannosaurus Rex of the oceans," a member of the research team said.(AFP/HO)AFP - Norwegian researchers have found a wealth of fossils in the Arctic from giant reptiles that swam the seas at the same time as dinosaurs, including a rare predator described as the "Tyrannosaurus Rex of the oceans," a member of the research team said.


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Dino Hunters Buried in Fossils
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Thursday, 28 September 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - Paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia, who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs, recently found 67 dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert in just one week.
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Mammoth bones found in Czech Republic
AFP   Wednesday, 27 September 2006

Visitors walk past a fossilized mammoth on exhibit at the Inner Mongolia Museum in the regional capital of Hohhot, February 2006. Bone fragments from a mammoth, along with the remains of another prehistoric animal, have been found in the northwestern Czech Republic during excavations to build a commercial center, scientists have said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Bone fragments from a mammoth, along with the remains of another prehistoric animal, have been found in the northwestern Czech Republic during excavations to build a commercial center, scientists have said.


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Ancient Pregnant Reptile Fossil Discovered Under Pingpong Table
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com   Wednesday, 27 September 2006
SPACE.com / LiveScience.com - Three new species of an ancient marine reptile, including a pregnant fossil, were recently discovered by University of Alberta paleontologists—under a pingpong table.
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Scientists report dinosaur find in Utah
AP   Saturday, 23 September 2006
AP - The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Scientists find 2nd red panda specimen
AP   Friday, 22 September 2006
AP - Scientists uncovered a second fossil of a red panda species first discovered at the Gray Fossil Site two years ago. Researchers from East Tennessee State University found a lower jawbone from a red panda of the Pristinailurus bristoli species last week.
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Infant hominid, Selam, helps probe into dawn of humanity
AFP   Thursday, 21 September 2006

Zeresenay Alemseged, the Ethiopian paleonthologist who headed the research team that found the 3.3 million years old "Selam" (peace in Amharic), the oldest ancestor child skeleton ever found, holds the skull of an hominid child known as Australopithecus afarensis during a press conference in Addis Ababa. Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.(AFP/Lealisa Westerhoff)AFP - Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.


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