Little Girl, 3 Million Years Old, Offers New Hints on Evolution
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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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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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See photos of "Lucy's baby" and other Australopithecus afarensis fossils that represent some of the earliest human ancestors known.
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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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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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Description: Scientists discover fossils of a new species of early human on the Indonesian island of Flores. Like the Neanderthals, it is an alternate human line that disappeared.
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A fossil found in Wyoming resolves a puzzle over when bats gained their sonar-like ability to navigate and locate food.
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PITTSBURGH - Paleontologists are hailing the discovery by a first-year geology student of a new species of amphibian, a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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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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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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By Unnati Gandhi  Paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft- bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is the history of life on Earth.
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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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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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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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Scientists took a fresh look at human evolution through tiny hitchhikers that have clung to humans and their relatives for centuries - lice.
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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.