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Our Clown-footed Cousins

Foot features suggest that Homo floresiensis, the so-called "hobbit" species, was indeed a separate hominid species and not another hominid species suffering dwarfism.

Could Pterosaurs Actually Fly?

An analysis of flapping frequencies of albatrosses and petrels suggest that a giant pterosaur could not have flown the same way as an albatross.

Dinosaur proteins, cells and blood vessels recovered from Bracyhlophosaurus

Bone cells and blood vessels may have been recovered from the thigh bone of an animal called Brachylophosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur that lived over 80 million years ago.

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