Ethiopia unveils new find of ancient fossils
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Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution.
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A new fossil find suggests that the crocodile's crushing jaws evolved on dry land&#151;and long before its water-friendly body.
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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A fossil tour doesn't have to mean an aging rock band's reunion concerts. The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's most famous fossils &#151; the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 &#151; to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time.
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Scientists have found the remains of a creature that may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the "missing link" between prehistoric and present-day crocodiles.
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Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient, tiny species of human in an isolated part of Indonesia. They are bones from what they say is a smaller version of the now extinct immediate ancestor to modern humans.
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A new type of shrew-like creature with a  snout similar to an elephant's trunk has been found in the  mountains of Tanzania, the first new species of the mammal  found since the 19th century, scientists said.
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Ethiopian scientists said on  Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating  from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what  could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human  evolution.
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Paris - In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists say they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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A new type of shrew-like creature with a snout similar to an elephant's trunk has been found in the mountains of Tanzania, the first new species of the mammal found since the 19th century, scientists said.
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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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Ten million-year-old fossils discovered in Ethiopia show that humans and apes probably split six or seven million years earlier than widely thought, according to landmark study released Wednesday.
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The earliest evidence for the existence of reptiles is found in  rocks dating back 315 million years.
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Description: Researchers report this week that they have found the remains of a group of small hominids that may be a new species of human -- one that may have existed on an island near Indonesia as late as 14,000 years ago.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.