Ethiopia unveils new find of ancient fossils
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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 earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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A new type of shrew-like creature with a  snout similar to an elephant's trunk has been found in the  mountains of Tanzania, the first new species of the mammal  found since the 19th century, scientists said.
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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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Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the "missing link" between prehistoric and present-day crocodiles.
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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Ten million-year-old fossils discovered in Ethiopia show that humans and apes probably split six or seven million years earlier than widely thought, according to landmark study released Wednesday.
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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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Scientists have unearthed the remains of a perfectly preserved 130 million-year-old new species of dinosaur which provide a first-ever look at how the prehistoric creatures slept.
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Fossil hunters working in Ethiopia unearth the remains of at least nine primitive hominids.
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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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The finding of a dinosaur fossil in southern China has given new clues to the evolution and hunting practices of a long-necked aquatic reptile that lived some 230 million years ago, the magazine Science said on Thursday.
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Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday said.
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Scientists have found a 16-foot fossil of a new species of fish-like lizard that swam the seas 160 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled on land.
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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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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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The discovery of remains belonging to a tiny species of ancient human has been hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades.