Top 5 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2017 (PLOS)
A new species of ancient ape, Nyanzapithecus alesi In a publication in Nature on August 10, 2017, Dr. Isaiah Nengo, Turkana Basin...
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Here's What the Last Common Ancestor of Apes and Humans Looked Like (Live Science)
The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked...
Is This Baby Animal the Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Apes? (Smithsonian)
About 13 million years ago, when present-day Kenya was covered in forests, a baby ape died. Its tiny corpse was covered in ash from a...
Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor (New Scientist)
A newly discovered fossil ape skull is providing clues about the common ancestor of all living apes, including our own species. The...
Bone Collector (The Telegraph India)
Fossil hunters scouring the foothills of the western Himalayas have stumbled upon parts of a jawbone of a primate, belonging to a...
A Piece of the Earliest Baboon Ever Found (New York Times)
A two-million-year-old skull fragment comes from the earliest baboon ever found, a new study reports. The fossil was found in Malapa, a...
Skull of Earliest Baboon Discovered (Live Science)
A 2-million-year-old skull unearthed in South Africa belongs to the earliest baboon ever found, a new study finds. Researchers discovered...
Baboon Species Fossil Identified in South Africa (Nature World News)
A partial skull of a fossil monkey specimen found in South Africa represents the earliest baboon ever found. The skull, which belongs to...
Archaeologists discover earliest known baboon relative (International Business Times)
A group of archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the fossilised remains of the earliest baboon ever discovered. A team...
Fossil gives new insight on cheek-pouch monkeys (Nature Middle East)
A fossilized tooth discovered in the United Arab Emirates suggests that cheek-pouch monkeys appeared up to 3.5 million years before...
Ancient tooth offers clues to how and when monkeys left Africa (Yale News)
The monkey roadmap out of Africa has a new timetable and route, thanks to a tiny tooth plucked from the Arabian desert. Yale...
Monkey tooth fossil gets to the root of what UAE was like millions of years ago (The National)
It has unattractive brown stains, is just a few millimetres across and part is broken off. But a fossilised tooth from Abu Dhabi has...
Single tooth tells a whole story about pre-historic Arabia (The National)
It is easy to imagine the excitement scientists feel when they discover the fossilised skeleton of a long-extinct animal. Teasing out the...
Fossils of earliest Old World monkeys unearthed. (Live Science)
Ancient teeth of old-world monkeys, which are most closely related to humans, have now been unearthed, fossils 3 million years older than...
Tooth pushes back modern monkeys’ first ancestor three million years (Yale News)
The ancestor of all modern African monkeys was alive 3 million years earlier than previously thought and coexisted with members of a...
Top 10 New Species of 2012: 4. The Congolese Cercopithecus (Time)
No one knows what counts as deep contemplation for a monkey, but judging by facial expression alone, the newly identified Cercopithecus...
New monkey discovered (Yale Daily News)
A new species of African monkey has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Commonly known as Lesula, the new species of...
New monkey discovered (CNN)
Scientists are claiming they have discovered a new species of monkey living in the remote forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo --...
Toe Fossil Contributes to a Head-Scratcher (New York Times)
Which came first, the nail or the claw? The answer is unclear, but researchers have discovered a clue: an early primate that had a toe...
Lemur-Like Toes Complicate Human Lineage (Live Science)
A 47-million-year-old primate may have been a fashionista of sorts, as new analysis of the fossil suggests it sported grooming claws....