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BRUSSELS, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) is open to possible easing of its sanctions against Russia, if peace progress is made in Ukraine, French President Francois Hollande said here on Friday.
Speaking at a press conference of the EU winter summit, Hollande called for implementation in all dimensions of the Minsk agreement reached in September between Kiev and independence-seeking insurgents.
The French president hoped the process of the Minsk agreement "moves fast by the end of the year A.J. Bouye Shirt ," adding that the contact group that includes delegates from the two confronting sides and envoys from Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation will meet next week in Minsk on further implementation of the previous agreement.
The current Russian economic situation is very delicate and fragile, which is not good for Russia, Europe and the global economy, Hollande said, attributing Russia's situation to falling oil prices and sanctions imposed by the EU.
Since March, the Russian ruble has lost nearly 50 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar and euro. The currency nosedived this week to an all-time low of 80 rubles per U.S. dollar and 100 rubles per euro in Moscow trading.
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WASHINGTON Myles Jack Shirt , March 14 (Xinhua) -- Scientists said Monday they have discovered the fossilized remains of a new horse-sized dinosaur that revealed how Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) became one of Earth's top predators about 70 to 80 million years ago.
T. rex and its close relatives reached the top of their food chain at the end of the age of dinosaurs, after other groups of large meat-eating dinosaurs had gone extinct about 80 to 90 million years ago.
But little was known about how these fearsome giants evolved from a family of small-bodied dinosaurs known as tyrannosaurs, largely due to a gap in the family's fossil record between 100 and 80 million years ago.
Now, the newly discovered species -- named Timurlengia euotica, which lived about 90 million years ago in today's Uzbekistan, seemed to help solve the mystery.
Timurlengia Leonard Fournette Shirt , named after the 14th-century Central Asian ruler Timurleng, is a tyrannosaur but not the ancestor of the T. rex.
""We had this huge gap in the fossil record, about a 20-million-year gap,"" study author Hans Sues, chair of the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History,"" told Xinhua.
""And this is an animal from the new tyrannosaurs from 90 million years ago in Central Asia Jalen Ramsey Shirt , and it shows that at that point this animal had already evolved the complicated brain and advanced senses the T. Rex had. But it was in a horse sized animal, and so obviously the brain reorganization happened long before these animals became real giants.""
Sues and a team of palaeontologists, led by Steve Brusatte at the University of Edinburgh, studied a collection of tyrannosaur fossils found between 1997 and 2006 in the Kyzylkum Desert, northern Uzbekistan, and discovered the new species.
They found the species' skull was much smaller than that of T. rex Gardner Minshew II Shirt , indicating that it did not grow to the same enormous size. However, key features of Timurlengia's skull like large inner ear revealed that it had developed keen senses and cognitive abilities, including the ability to hear low-frequency sounds.
Timurlengia was about the size of a horse, and could weigh up to 250kg. It had long legs and a skull studded with sharp teeth, and was likely a fast runner, researchers said.
The first tyrannosaurs lived around 170 million years ago and were only slightly larger than a human. However Ryquell Armstead Shirt , by the late Cretaceous Period -- around 100 million years later -- tyrannosaurs had evolved into animals like T. rex and Albertosaurus, which could weigh more than seven tons.
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