Skull offers clues to Chinese origins
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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Today researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ancient reptile. The 230-million-year-old remains of the long-necked, aquatic predator were found in China.
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Wine, the elixir of the gods, may be as old as human history, and a team of archaeologists who combine their science with chemistry has found evidence that Chinese were already enjoying sips of fermented rice, honey and fruit in the late Stone Age, more
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Careful study of the wrist bones from the prehistoric "Hobbit" bolster the idea that the creature was a distinct human species.
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A discovery of 1.66 million-year-old stone tools has produced the earliest evidence that human ancestors apparently dispersed across Asia at a relatively rapid clip.
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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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Anthropologists are not often giddy with excitement, but the unearthing of the skeleton of a meter-tall female who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18,000 years ago has them whooping with delight the finding of another piece of the puzzle of the
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Complex skull operations were being performed as early as 960AD, remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show.
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A rare fossil from the age of the dinosaurs is shedding light on when the modern crocodile first evolved a skull strong enough to keep hold of its prey during the dismembering &#39;death roll&#39;.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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A feud flares over an ancient skull that may or may not have belonged to a new species of human
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Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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The face of an Egyptian artisan named Harwa has been seen for the first time in 3000 years using CT scans, X-rays and 3D modelling technology.
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WASHINGTON - The first skull of the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda was been discovered in China, researchers report. Discovery of the skull, estimated to be at least 2 million years old, is reported by Russell L.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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A piece of jawbone found in a Devon cave is to be re-examined by scientists to see if it is from a Neanderthal man.