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Palaeontologists in northern Greece have unearthed the intact skull of a prehistoric primate that lived at least five million years ago, a member of the research team has said. "The skull still carries the bite marks of a large carnivore, it ranks among the best preserved ever found. It give...

Scientists have identified a major climate crisis that struck Africa about 70,000 years ago and which may have changed the course of human history. Tanganyika The evidence comes from sedime...

A gliding mammal that lives in the forests of south-east Asia is our closest relative after apes, monkeys and lemurs, a DNA study shows. Colugos are the "sisters" of primates, sharing a common ancestor some 80 million years ago when dinosaurs had their heyday, say US scientists. Until no...

Chinese researchers are hopeful of finding the remains of the world's most famous cave dweller, the 500 000-year-old Peking Man, more than 60 years after they disappeared. Several interesting clues have come to light in recent months, according to members of a recently established committe...

Human-Like Walking is Ancient Meet "Lucy's" Great-Grandfather. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie led an international team that discovered and analysed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Eth...

Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed "Denisovans" after the caves in Siberia where their remains w...

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Primate Prehistoric primate ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	11	7110	Sep 4 16:53 2015 by Blobrana
Palaeontologists in northern Greece have unearthed the intact skull of a prehistoric primate that lived at least five million years ago, a member of the research team has said. "The skull still carries the bite marks of a large carnivore, it ranks among the best preserved ever found. It give...
Primate Human Homo Sapiens ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 30 ) (Preview)	General news	294	47041	Jun 8 11:48 2017 by Blobrana
Scientists have identified a major climate crisis that struck Africa about 70,000 years ago and which may have changed the course of human history. Tanganyika The evidence comes from sedime...
Primate Primates ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	28	8013	Jan 11 11:58 2017 by Blobrana
A gliding mammal that lives in the forests of south-east Asia is our closest relative after apes, monkeys and lemurs, a DNA study shows. Colugos are the "sisters" of primates, sharing a common ancestor some 80 million years ago when dinosaurs had their heyday, say US scientists. Until no...
Primate Peking Man ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	10	4592	Jul 19 03:27 2015 by Blobrana
Chinese researchers are hopeful of finding the remains of the world's most famous cave dweller, the 500 000-year-old Peking Man, more than 60 years after they disappeared. Several interesting clues have come to light in recent months, according to members of a recently established committe...
Primate Human Australopithecus Australopithecus afarensis ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	11	9307	May 22 22:20 2017 by Blobrana
Human-Like Walking is Ancient Meet "Lucy's" Great-Grandfather. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie led an international team that discovered and analysed a 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton found in Eth...
Primate Human Denisovans (Preview)	Off Topic	7	5169	Mar 4 19:38 2017 by Blobrana
Ancient humans, dubbed 'Denisovans', interbred with us Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed "Denisovans" after the caves in Siberia where their remains w...