Fossil may fill gap in evolution
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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.
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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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Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes.
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Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution more than three million years ago.
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Blog: Paleontologists have found that precursors to dinosaurs weren't so rapidly replaced as previously thought.
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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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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.
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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.
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London - A theory that birds may have had four wings during a stage of their evolution has been given fresh support with the discovery of a new fossil in China.
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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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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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Geologists unveiled a fossil discovery on Tuesday they believe will help resolve a long-standing mystery over whether dinosaurs ever roamed to what is now Canada's Pacific coast.
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Why do we gossip? Evolution may hold some surprising answers.
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A new fossil discovery from China shows that a tiny squirrel-like creature glided through the air during the age of dinosaurs, more than 75 million years earlier than scientists had documented that ability in a mammal.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...
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The dinosaurs might have gone out with a sudden bang, but their rise to dominance was a gradual ascent, experts say.
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While meteorites are often associated with the extinction of dinosaurs, new evidence suggests the impacts may actually engender new life. Commentary by Carl Zimmer.