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Nature:Hominin DNA baffles experts |
By Ewen Callaway 04 December 2013
Location of the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (yellow) as well as Late Pleistocene sites that have yielded Neanderthal DNA (red) and Denisovan DNA (blue).
Another ancient genome, another mystery. DNA gleaned from a 400,000-year-old femur from Spain has reveal... |
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Nature:Ancient fish face shows roots of modern jaw |
Primitive vertebrate's sophisticated mandible rewrites evolutionary tree.
Eliot Barford 25 September 2013
The newly described armoured fish showed in this reconstruction lived 419 million years ago but already had the bony jaw seen in modern fish and most other vertebrates. Brian Cho
It may be hard to s... |
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The Conversation:Extraordinary ‘missing link’ fossil fish found in China |
Finding Entelognathus is a revelation comparable to the discovery of Archaeopteryx. Brian Choo
A spectacular new “missing link” fossil has been unearthed in China. The 419 million year old armoured fish, called Entelognathus, meaning “complete jaw” solves an age-old debate in science. For palaeontologis... |
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ScienceNow:Earliest Bird Claim Ruffles Feathers |
Early bird? Artist's reconstruction (right) of a claimed 160-million-year-old avian skeleton (left) found in China.
Credit: (fossil, left) Thierry Hubin/IRSNB; (reconstruction, right) Masato Hattori
During the Jurassic period, between about 200 million and 145 million years ago, some meat-eating dinosau... |
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ScienceDaily: Skulls of Early Humans Carry Telltale Signs of Inbreeding |
| Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washing... |
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Nature: Exquisite bird fossils reveal egg-producing ovary |
Exquisite bird fossils reveal egg-producing ovary
Early avians lost one of two ovaries to take flight
Brian Switek
This fossil specimen of an ancient enantiornithes shows circular structures thought to be ovarian follicles — but, like in modern birds, only on the left side of the body.
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Science: The Early Bird Loses an Ovary |
The Early Bird Loses an Ovary
by Sid Perkins
The follicles (close-up, inset) preserved in the fossilized ovary of this 125-million-year-old bird (main image), provide insights into the reproductive biology of these early birds and into bird evolution. Credit: Aijuan Shi; Zhonghe Zhou (inset)
The dinosaur... |
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Xinhua: New Chinese fossil discovery named Luanchuan Man |
ZHENGZHOU, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese paleoanthropologists have given the name Luanchuan Man to Homo erectus fossil specimens discovered in central China's Henan Province.
The fossilized teeth of an early human were recently discovered at the Sunjiadong excavation site in Luanchuan County in the city of Luoyang... |
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