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Fossil teeth of Gigantopithecus found from Yunnan-Guizhou plateau

Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki is the largest species of all extinct and extant primates. Its diet, distribution and evolution remained unclear. According to a paper in press in the journal of Quaternary In ...

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created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sediba hominid skull hints at later brain evolution

An analysis of a skull from the most complete early hominid fossils ever found suggests that the large and complex human brain may have evolved more rapidly than previously realized, and at a later time than some other human ...

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created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Prehistoric bird found in fossil treasure

A Flinders University-led expedition involving the WA Museum has found the fossilised remains of a prehistoric bird, possibly a wedge-tailed eagle, in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain. The bird is more than 780,000 years old.

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created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists reveal a first in Ice Age art

Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Florida with an incised image ...

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

True causes for extinction of cave bear revealed

The cave bear started to become extinct in Europe 24,000 years ago, but until now the cause was unknown. An international team of scientists has analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 17 new fossil samples, ...

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created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?

Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 5