Fossilised ape skeleton could be evolution&#39;s missing link
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An extinct ape that lived 13 million years ago has been identified as the leading contender for the title of last common ancestor of humans and all great apes alive today.
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The fossil called Little Foot, which had tantalized scientists with its human- and apelike features, is a million years younger than had been thought, a new study says.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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A 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of the  earliest child ever found shows the ancient ancestor of modern  humans walked upright but may also have climbed trees,  scientists said on Wednesday.
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New research suggests that developing the ability to run &#151; long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man &#151; was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today as humans.
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A second look at some 40-million-year-old fossils provides a "missing link" to suggest that the closest living relative of whales is the hippo, a group of scientists said on Monday.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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Researchers studying Neanderthal DNA say it should be possible to construct a complete genome of the ancient hominid despite the degradation of the DNA over time.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in today&#39;s issue of Science magazine.
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If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna
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Big evolutionary insights sometimes come in little packages. Witness the startling discovery, in a cave on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, of the partial skeleton of a half-size Homo species that
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In the search for a missing  evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up  with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with  the body of a small deer.
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The discovery of a nearly intact child's skeleton belonging to the earliest-known human ancestor suggests a creature that walked upright like a man but could swing through the trees like an ape.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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Scientists have found the remains of a dinosaur in a fossilized mammal's stomach, a discovery that upends decades of scientific belief about the relationship between dinosaurs and mammals.
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In Spain scientists have discovered 13-million-year-old fossils of new species of ape. The species may have been the last common ancestor of humans and all great apes living today. Photo Gallery.