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12 2013
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).
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09 2013
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 al...
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09 2013
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...
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06 2013
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06 2013
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05 2013
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
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03 2013
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 ...
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03 2013
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...
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03 2013
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...
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03 2013
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 hum...
