Million-year-old human tooth found in Spain
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Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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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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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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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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In Spain scientists have discovered 13-million-year-old fossils of a new species of ape. The species may have been the last common ancestor of humans and all great apes living today. Includes photo gallery.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Fossilized foot marks left by a big  meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years  ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were  good swimmers, scientists said on Thursday.
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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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Scientists in Uruguay have found the  fossil remains of a 2,000 pound (1,000 kg) rodent that lived 2  million to 4 million years ago -- the largest rodent ever  found.
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The last 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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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.
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The fossilised skull of a one-tonne rodent - the largest ever discovered - is described by scientists.
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A Spanish team investigates a site where giant hyenas, giraffes, zebras and sabretoothed cats lived side by side 1.8 million years ago.
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PITTSBURGH: A geology student on a field trip stumbled across the fossil of an oversized, salamander-like creature with vicious crocodile-like teeth that lived about 300 million years ago, paleontologists said.
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The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region.
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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.