Fossil May Show Ape-Man Ancestor
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists have announced they have found the bones of a tiny human who is a twig in mankind&#39;s family tree.
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The fossil of an ancient species of ape, discovered at a construction site in western Spain, has revealed that great apes went through more evolutionary stages than previously thought.
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WASHINGTON: Using computer programs, scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental
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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.
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Using computer programs,scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals
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By DEEPTI HAJELA  NEW YORK - In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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Scientists have found fossilised remains of what could be the last common ancestor to all the great apes living today. It will give scientists vital clues in charting the course of primate and, ultimately, human evolution.
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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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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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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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The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.
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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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The discovery of a skeleton of a woman barely three feet tall who hunted tiny elephants and huge rats 18,000 years ago could rewrite the story of human evolution, scientists say.
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An ape that lived 13 million years  ago in what is now Spain may have been the last common ancestor  of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and  humans, researchers said on Thursday.
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The latest probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain.
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Spanish researchers say they have found the remains of an extinct species of great ape that may have been the last ancestor humans shared with gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans.