Shrew's who: New mammal enters the book of life
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In a rare discovery of a new species of mammal, zoologists on Thursday said they had identified a shrew-like creature called a grey-faced sengi living in a small community in remote Tanzania.
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Exploding through the newsnets is the discovery of the remains of seven members of a tiny, previously unknown human species that survived until at least 13,000 years ago, and perhaps co-existed with modern humans right up to the present day.  Adult Homo Florensiensis, nicknamed "Hobbits" by the dig workers who helped uncover the remains at the Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, were about the size of a three-year-old modern human child, but had a brain one-third the size. Stone tools and pygmy elephant bones found at the site indicate that these "Hobbits" hunted co-operatively together in groups, meaning that they must have had language. "The whole idea that you need a particular brain size to do anything intelligent is completely blown away by this find," commented Dr Henry Gee of Nature magazine to the BBC.
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Scientists have discovered a fish that imitates the extraterrestrial beast of the âAlienâ series: it possesses a second set of jaws.
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Science & environment: Â· Biodiversity Action Plan list doubles in size Â· House sparrow, cuckoo and hedgehog added
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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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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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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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Scientists have unearthed a new species of hobbit-sized humans that may have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, sharing the earth alongside modern-day man.
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In the animal kingdom, a capacity for trends could mean the difference between life and death.
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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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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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A glimpse of what's in store from the fifth book of the Harry Potter series.
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405 years, unmolested by science Scientists have dredged up the oldest known living creature and have called it Ming.â¦
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THE discovery by Australian scientists on the Indonesian island of Flores of an entirely new humanoid species - colloquially dubbed &quot;hobbits&quot; because of their diminutive stature â-uts a new piece in place in the long scientific mission to understand
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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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An international team of scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new human genetic map, or "book of life", that fills in missing pages and chapters to explain how genes are involved in common diseases.