'Missing Link' of Elephant Family Unearthed
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A 27-million-year-old  fossil could be the &ldquo;missing link&rdquo; between modern elephants and their ancestors,  scientists have concluded.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause
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A genetic study sheds light on the mystery of how fish made the move from water to land millions of years ago.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a "lost world" of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.
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Spanish anthropologists, intrigued by a single fossil tooth found near a Catalonian village, dug up more of the animal&#39;s stony skeleton and announced they have discovered what may be the last common ancestor of all the world&#39;s living great apes
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The skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found in Indonesia belong to a new branch of our family tree, a study says.
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The genetic blueprint of a parasite that causes disfiguring elephantiasis has been unravelled.
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It sounds like a stretch, but a new study suggests that the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd raccoon-sized animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers. Or an overgrown long-legged rat.
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Using elephant dung and skin samples, researchers said they were able to make a map of elephant DNA that could help track down ivory poachers.
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There are intriguing new clues in the mystery of how the woolly mammoth met its demise in North America more than 10,000 years ago.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was much smaller than its modern day counterpart, scientists say
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A new species of elephant shrew is discovered in Tanzania, scientists report.