Science ; Fossil ape may be father of all apes
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Chimpanzees may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300 years ago.
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Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine.
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Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.
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WASHINGTON - A human ancestor the size of a chimp walked upright six million years ago - about three million years earlier than Lucy, the famous bipedal hominid, researchers say.
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Parents have been doting over their offspring for a very, very long time, it seems. A South African fossil suggests pelycosaurs -- intermediates between reptiles and mammals that lived in the Permian Period before the rise of dinosaurs -- may have been caring parents 260 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - A chimp-sized human ancestor walked upright 6 million years ago, far earlier than anyone had been able to show before, researchers report.
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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 discover a new group of giant apes in central Africa, which could be a new species of primate.
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An ape that lived 13 million years  ago in what is now Spain may have been the last common ancestor  of all apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and  humans, researchers 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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Using computer programs,scientists have suceeded in reconstructing the DNA of a creature that lived at the time of the dinosaurs more than 75 million years ago, a small, furry nocturnal animal that was the common ancestor of all placental mammals
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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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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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The discovery suggests that the care that crocodiles, birds, and other modern descendents of archosaurs give to their young may be an ancestral characteristic.