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Researchers have described the new genus and species, Pliobates cataloniae, based on a skeleton recovered from the landfill of Can Mata (Catalonia, NE Spain). The fossil remains belong to an adult female individual that weighed 4-5 kg and moved through the forest canopy by climbing and suspending below branches. Pliobates has important implications for reconstructing the last common ancestor of hominids and hylobatids. The fossil remains belong to an adult female individual named 'Laia' by her discoverers.
El Museo Arqueológico Regional presenta la exposición "El presente de la arqueología madrileña" en sus instalaciones de Alcalá de Henares.
Night-time vision evolved millions of years ago in early mammals, a study suggests.
New fossils from the outskirts of Nairobi reveal that Australopithecus afarensis lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley, demonstrating how adaptable the early hominid species were to new environments.
Dental, dietary and environmental clues help explain why the world's largest ape vanished
Homo is the genus of hominids that includes modern humans, as well as other species closely related to them... I mean us. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old and
John Gurche, a “paleo-artist,” has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors for a new exhibit
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The discovery of new skeletal remains of Homo naledi in the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa, adds more evidence to our understanding of the morphology and behavior of this recently discovered species.