Chris Gilbert
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...
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Chris Gilbert
Mar 2, 20141 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Mar 19, 20131 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Mar 10, 20131 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Dec 5, 20121 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Oct 5, 20121 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Sep 14, 20121 min
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 --...
Chris Gilbert
Jan 17, 20121 min
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...
Chris Gilbert
Jan 12, 20121 min
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....
Chris Gilbert
May 21, 20091 min
Amid Media Circus, Scientists Doubt 'Ida' Is Your Ancestor (Live Science)
Hurum and team advocate the minority hypothesis that in fact a third group, adapids, eventually gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans....
Chris Gilbert
Jul 20, 20071 min
Anatomy of Evolution (NewsDay)
In the latest attempt to answer the anthropological question of whether DNA or anatomy provides the better clue to understanding...
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