Prehuman Remains Found in Ethiopia
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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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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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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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Archaeologists show in Berlin photos of a well-preserved 2,500-year-old Scythian mummy found in Mongolia.
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Fossil hunters have unearthed the skeleton of a young girl who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.
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NEW YORK Scientists in Spain have discovered fossils of an ape species from about 13 million years ago that they think may have been the last common ancestor of all living great apes, including humans.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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A husband-wife fossil-hunting team in Spain has excavated the skeleton of a 13 million-year-old creature they believe is close to the last common ancestor of modern great apes and humans.
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Fossils of an ape species from about 13 million years ago may have been the last common ancestor of great apes, including humans.
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Ethiopian scientists unveiled on  Wednesday a 3.3 million-year-old fossil of a girl, which they  believe is the most complete skeleton ever found.
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A 3.3-million-year-old fossil toddler&#151;the world's oldest known child&#151;has been discovered almost completely intact in Ethiopia. Experts say the find will provide fascinating new clues about our early ancestors.
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WASHINGTON - A human ancestor the size of a chimp walked upright six million years ago - about three million years earlier than Lucy, the famous bipedal hominid, researchers say.
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BARCELONA - A fossilized ape that was adept at climbing trees and stood upright was the last probable ancestor to great apes, including humans, researchers said Thursday.
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DENVER: In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species - a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical lost world, while modern man rapidly colonised the rest
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Computer analysis of an African fossil indicates that a human-like creature walked upright six million years ago&#151;the earliest evidence of bipedalism found to date.
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LONDON - Modern humans began dominating the world far earlier than thought, according to anthropologists who say they&#39;ve discovered fossils of a new human dwarf species.
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Archaeologists in Peru uncover the mummified remains of dogs buried with blankets alongside their human masters.