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    Early Bird is 115 million years old

    Spanish bird fossil is the first specimen with alulae or wing flaps for slow flight

  2. Earliest modern Asian human discovered in China

    New link in the fossil record of modern humans spreading around the world from Africa

  3. Earliest Human Ancestor Found in Ethiopia

    Our earliest ancestor is now Ardipithicus ramidus with bones dated 4.4 million years old

  4. Earliest Animal Embryo Fossils found in China

    Fossils from China that pre-date the Cambrian explosion are exciting palaeontologists

  5. Dyslexia is not the same in all Languages

    The part of the brain affected by dyslexia depends on culture and language

  6. Double Trouble for Mars explorers

    Two glitches in Mars exploration, in orbit and on the surface

  7. Donating Blood Could be Good for your Heart

    How donating blood might reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering iron levels

  8. Dolly, Polly, Molly and Beyond

    First there was Dolly; now there are Polly and Molly, sheep with a human gene. What next?

  9. Dolly the Cloned Sheep makes History

    How Dolly the sheep has become the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell

  10. Dolly has a Little Lamb 鈥� called Bonny

    Dolly, the first cloned sheep, gives birth to a lamb conceived naturally

  11. Does Monkeys' immune Response hold the key to HIV?

    How primates deal with SIV could teach us about HIV

  12. Does Insulin influence Longevity?

    Insulin might have a role in helping us to live longer

  13. Do yeast cells hold the secret of Eternal Youth?

    Sirtuin proteins seem to affect ageing in widely different organisms

  14. Do tree lizards show evolution in action?

    The leg-length of lizards marooned on islands could hold a key to evolutionary processes

  15. Do Power Lines affect our Health?

    Power workers' occupational study shows increase in brain cancers but not leukemia

  16. Diverse Origins of Modern Man

    Early human evolution involved multiple hominid species in Asia as well as Europe

  17. Dispute over ancient Skull settled with a CAT scan

    Ancient skull was one of our earliest hominid ancestors

  18. Dispute over Amino Acids in Martian Meteorite

    New report claims amino acids in a Martian meteorite are of earthly origin

  19. Discovery of ancient 'Hobbit' Species in Indonesia

    Remains of a possible human-like "Hobbit" species found on island of Flores, Indonesia

  20. Dinosaurs were declining before an Asteroid hit

    Volcanic-induced climate changes may have been the main cause of dinosaur extinction

  21. Dinosaur Protein is related to a modern Chicken

    Protein found in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil is related to that of the modern chicken

  22. Dinosaur Blood Vessels in fossil Bones

    Tyrannosaurus rex fossils that may contain the remains of soft tissue

  23. Digital Map of the Heavens

    First results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  24. Digital Compass will show you the Way 成人快手

    Computerised compass uses light to register magnetic readings and record them

  25. Did we all start from this Single Cell?

    Proteins show that choanoflagellates could be our closest single-cell ancestor

  26. Did this Dinosaur have Feathers, Frills or Bristles?

    The palaeontological jury is still out on whether dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had feathers

  27. Did the Ingredients of Life come from the Deep?

    Deep-sea hydrothermal vents could hold the chemical key to the origin of life

  28. Did the Building Blocks of Life arrive by Meteorite?

    New analysis of the Murchison meteorite and its amino-acids

  29. Did Siberian Volancoes cause prehistoric mass Extinction?

    Why did 90% of species die out at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago?

  30. Did Neanderthals overlap with modern Man?

    Neanderthal man survived thousands of years longer in Malta than previously thought

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