Fossils found in China may add a new branch to the human family tree
This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.
Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story
The hard-to-classify Chinese remains include 21 fossils found in the 1970s at the Xujiayao (Houjiayao) site located on the border of northern China’s Shanxi and Hebei provinces. The specimens ...
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Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen
Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...
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Researchers Claim Sighting Ancient Human Species That Look Like Tiny ‘Ape-Man’ on the Remote Island
Researchers Claim Sighting Ancient Human Species That Look Like Tiny ‘Ape-Man’ on the Remote Island The remote island of ...
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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...