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World`s oldest big cat fossil found in Tibet

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 18:33

A fossil discovered in Tibet promises to fill a significant gap in the mystery shrouding the evolutionary origin of panthers, scientist here have said.

`King of gore` predatory dinosaur` fossil reveals T Rex`s origins

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 13:11

A remarkable new species of tyrannosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), southern Utah, which has provided new clues to the evolution of T.rex.

Earliest fossil of copulating insects found in China

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 11:49

Scientists have found the oldest fossil depicting copulating insects in northeastern China, Xinhua reported citing a study published Wednesday in the US journal PLOS ONE.

Antarctica harboured strange forests 250 million years ago?

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 17:59

Weird forests with certain features of modern tropical trees may have sprouted in Antarctica about 250 million years ago, a new study has found.

Thousands of dinosaur tracks found in Alaska

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 19:50

Real-life Jurassic Park! Thousands of fossilised dinosaur footprints have been discovered along the rocky banks of Alaska`s Yukon River.

Fish fossil yields jaw-dropping data on human evolutionary history

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 08:38

The ancestor of all creatures with jaws and a backbone was not a sleek, shark-like beast but a toothless, armoured fish, said a study Wednesday that rewrites man`s evolutionary history.

Late Cretaceous Period may have been ice-free

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 13:16

A researcher has said that he has found proof suggesting that no ice sheet formed during the late Cretaceous Period when the climate was much warmer than today.

Wind tunnel experiments show evolution of bird flight among dinos

Last Updated: Thursday, September 19, 2013, 11:48

A new study into the aerodynamic performance of feathered dinosaurs has provided new insight into the evolution of bird flight.

Out of the oil emerges Venezuela`s `Jurassic Park`

Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2013, 14:17

Under the rich Venezuelan soil, paleontologists have found treasures rivalling the bountiful oil, a giant armadillo the size of a Volkswagen, a crocodile bigger than a bus and a saber-toothed tiger.

Fossils of giant shark found in Spain

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 14:55

The Spanish Oceanography Institute has discovered in the waters of the Canary Islands a large deposit of fossils of a shark that became extinct two million years ago.

Dinosaur fossils unearthed in China

Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 16:07

Chinese archaeologists have found more than 130 dinosaur fossils at a site in China`s Shandong province.

360 million-yr-old Gondwana fossils of early land animals found in South Africa

Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 12:26

Evidence of early land animals on the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana has been found in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.