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New human-like species found

September 11, 2015
Anthropologists have discovered a new human-like species – Homo naledi – in the Rising Cave system in South Africa. An international research team led by the University of the Witwatersrand...

Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur found

June 16, 2015
Palaeontologists have discovered Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur fossil on the coast of North Yorkshire. A research team at the University of Manchester used x-ray computed tomography and estimated the age...

The oldest unevolved organism

April 20, 2015
Scientists have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that shows no evidence of evolution in the last 2 billion years. A research team at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)...

AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

December 11, 2014
Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique.Researchers from the University of Oxford dated over...

Mary Rose dog male, not female

November 20, 2014
The smallest member of the crew on board the Mary Rose – a dog named Hatch – was a he and not a she as previously believed. Hatch was discovered...

New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs

July 17, 2014
A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs that developed the ability to fly. Instead, the fossil – a Scansoriopteryx -...

Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding

July 1, 2014
A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neanderthals and modern humans met and interbred. The fossils – from a collection once...

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

June 11, 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought suggests controversial new research from the University of Portsmouth. Fossils of starfish, sea...

Dino weigh-in sheds light on evolution

May 14, 2014
Rapidly shrinking body sizes allowed feathered dinosaurs to exploit ecological niches throughout their evolution and become hugely successful suggests research led by the University of Oxford. An international team –...

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...

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