Chris GilbertJul 1, 20141 minMonkey 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...
Chris GilbertMar 2, 20141 minSingle 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...
Chris GilbertMar 19, 20131 minFossils 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...
Chris GilbertMar 10, 20131 minTooth 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...