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13 Feb 2008:
The oldest fossilised bats ever discovered may represent a missing link between the flying mammals and their flightless ancestors
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16 Jan 2008:
An enormous palm tree that grows to dizzying heights before committing floral hara-kiri has been identified as a new genus by botanists in Madagascar
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15 Jan 2008:
The giant prehistoric rat was bigger than a bull and roamed South America four million years ago
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10 Sep 2007:
British scientists are to embark on an unprecedented expedition to the mysterious undersea "islands" of the Southern Ocean, in a £3.2m expedition that will search for new species whose existence might explain how life in the seas evolved.
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19 Jul 2007:
Modern humans took their first steps to colonise the world from a single region of sub-Saharan Africa, according to British scientists.
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17 May 2007:
Researchers have found more than 700 previously unknown creatures including carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans and molluscs in the cold, dark water around Antarctica.
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10 May 2007:
· Encyclopaedia will be freely available on internet
· All aspects of 1.8 million species will be described -
13 Apr 2007:
· Proteins sequenced from dinosaur confirm link
· Discovery ushers in new era in palaeontology -
15 Mar 2007:
A rare and reclusive leopard that hunts among the dense island forests of Borneo and Sumatra in south-east Asia has been identified as an entirely new species of great cat.
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26 Feb 2007:
· Scientists research world sealed off for 12,000 years
· Marine life transformed by rapid climate change
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22 Dec 2006:
A crocodile-like fossil called Tiktaalik roseae, found on Ellesmere Island, Canada, sent scientists wild with excitement. A missing link between fish and land animals, it showed how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago. Tiktaalik - the name means "a large, shallow-water fish" in the Inuit language - lived in the Devonian era lasting from 417m to 354m years ago, and had a skull, neck, and ribs similar to early limbed animals, known as tetrapods, as well as a more primitive jaw, fins, and scales akin to fish. It showed that the evolution of animals from living in water to living on land happened gradually, with fish first living in shallow water.
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19 Dec 2006:
· WWF hails discovery of 52 new species in Borneo
· Deforestation hits island that fascinated Darwin -
11 Dec 2006:
Ambitious project is finding two species of fish each week unknown to science.
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17 Aug 2006:
Sea urchin up for sale on eBay is of a species new to science.
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