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Wetenschappers hebben in de bergen van Tanzania een nieuw zoogdier ontdekt. Het diertje lijkt op een uit de kluiten gewassen spitsmuis en met zijn lange snuit heeft het ook iets weg van een miereneter.


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Brazil finds fossil of ‘missing link’ to crocodile


Lizard-like predator dates back about 80 million years


The 80 million-year-old remains of a land-bound reptile described as a possible link between prehistoric and modern-day crocodiles were displayed to the public for the first time on Thursday.


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'New type of bird' found in Nepal


A previously unknown sub-species of bird has been discovered in the southern grasslands of Nepal, scientists say.

The bird is a warbler with a very long tail and slender beak and has been named the Nepal Rufous-vented Prinia (Prinia burnesii nipalensis).


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Researchers find dinky flying reptile fossil


Small, toothless pterodactyl another piece in puzzle of ancient life


As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes — yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life.


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Scientists unearth primitive bat skeleton


Creature likely hunted insects but lacked the ability to echolocate


The most primitive bat ever found fluttered around about 52 million years ago, but lacked a key feature seen in most bats — the ability to echolocate, hunting and navigating using a kind of sonar.


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Scientists find ‘Devil Toad’ fossil


Discovery of bowling ball-sized frog raises ancient geography questions


A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.


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Massive meat-eating dinosaurs discovered


Researchers say animal had horny covering over its face


Paleontologists have discovered in Niger bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs that may have picked over the same prey, much as modern-day lions and hyenas do.

University of Chicago paleontologists Paul Sereno and Stephen Brusatte named one of the dinosaurs Kryptops palaios, or "old hidden face," because of a horny covering over its face, they wrote in the scientific journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonia.


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Fossil sea monster big enough to ‘bite a car’


150 million year-old dinosaur-era pliosaur largest of its kind


The fossil of a 50-foot long "sea monster" found in Arctic Norway was the biggest of its kind known to science with dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough to bite a small car, researchers said on Wednesday.

The 150 million year-old dinosaur-era pliosaur, a fierce marine reptile, was about 16 feet 5 inches longer than the previous pliosaur record holder found in Australia.


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Pint-sized primates were first in North America


Leaping, furry mini-monkeys crossed Bering land bridge long before humans


Leaping, furry mini-monkeys that were as small as mice crossed the Bering land bridge long before humans, representing North America's oldest known primates.

This new claim is based on the fossils of at least three individuals of this previously unknown species of extinct primate uncovered at a site near Meridian, Miss., scientists announced today. The researcher estimates the primate fossils date to about 55.8 million years ago.


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10 million-year-old fossil found in New Mexico


Plant-eating oreodont resembled a cross between a pig and a camel


A geologic mapping project led to the finding of a 10 million-year-old fossil that's now being studied at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

Dave Love, a geologist with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, spotted a jaw and teeth 8 feet up from the canyon floor Feb. 22 east of the visitors' center at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro. A team dug out the fossil from the steep cliff face last week.


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New bird discovered in Indonesia


Togian white-eye promptly recommended for endangered lists


A small greenish bird that has been playing hide-and-seek with ornithologists on a remote Indonesian island since 1996 was declared a newly discovered species on Friday and promptly recommended for endangered lists.

The new species is called the Togian white-eye, or Zosterops somadikartai.


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Crawling fish may be part of new family


Creature uses leglike pectoral fins to burrow into crevices of coral reefs


A recently discovered fish that crawls instead of swimming and has forward-looking eyes like humans could be part of an entirely unknown family of fishes, a University of Washington professor reported Wednesday.


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Scientists find bizarre lungless frog


Enigmatic amphibian apparently gets oxygen through its skin


The first lungless frog has been discovered lurking in the jungles of Borneo.

The enigmatic amphibian, dubbed Barbourula kalimantanensis, apparently gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin.

Scientists first saw one of these frogs 30 years ago, but due to their rarity, just one other specimen had been collected since then and neither had been dissected.


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Scientist rediscovers rare plant unseen since ’85


‘Little hermit’ is both new species and new genus


A scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic plant that hasn't been seen by botanists in more than 20 years.


A single specimen of the plant was found in Mexico in 1985, but the plant wasn't seen again until St. Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a colleague found it in a pine oak forest in Mexico's mountains.


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