Ethiopia unveils 3.3 million-year-old girl fossil
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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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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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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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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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In a discovery sure to fuel an old debate about our evolutionary history, scientists have found a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy."
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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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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Scientists have found fossil skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia.
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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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Fossilized remains show the gigantic, birdlike dinosaur lived 70 million years ago and reached 26 feet in length.
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Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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A 16-year-old high school student stumbled upon what archaeologists say could be the biggest fossil find in Pinellas County in nearly a century. A shiny black rock caught Sierra Sarti-Sweeney's eye as she was taking pictures last month in Boca Ciega Millennium Park.
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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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The 500-year-old mummified remains of an Inca girl go on display for the first time since being found in Argentina.
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A 13-million-year-old fossil found in Spain may be that of the last common ancestor to all living great apes, including humans, researchers reported Thursday.