Scientists discover 11 million-year-old human ancestor fossil in Kutch
6 years, 4 months ago

Scientists discover 11 million-year-old human ancestor fossil in Kutch

India TV News  

Scientists have discovered a fossilised upper jaw of an eleven million-year-old human ancestor in Kutch, Gujarat. The find significantly extends the southern range of ancient apes in the Indian Peninsula, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers from Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow, UP, examined an ape jaw fragment excavated from the Kutch basin, in the Gujarat state of western India, about 1,000 km south of the Siwaliks deposits. The finding is the first Miocene ape fossil to be discovered so far south in the Indian peninsula, and extends the southern range of ancient apes in the subcontinent by about 1,000 km.

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Mysterious 1.4 million-year-old jaw belongs to a 'never-before seen' human relative - and it could rewrite the entire history of our evolution
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mysterious 1.4 million-year-old jaw belongs to a 'never-before seen' human relative - and it could rewrite the entire history of our evolution

Daily Mail  

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Although not a direct ancestor, we share distant relatives with Paranthropus, which lived in Africa between about one million and 2.7 million years ago. The jawbone and teeth are smaller than other Paranthropus specimens, leading the team to describe this …

Strange 1.4 million-year-old fossil traced to previously unknown human relative 'nutcracker man’
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Strange 1.4 million-year-old fossil traced to previously unknown human relative 'nutcracker man’

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in …

The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes
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The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes

Wired  

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Its fossilized anatomy offered evidence of early human upright walking—and 50 years later, in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia that would become a hot spot for ancient human discovery, this understanding took another leap backwards in time with the discovery of Lucy. Lucy the “paleo-rock star” took …

Giant elephant skull found in the Himalayas leaves scientists perplexed
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Giant elephant skull found in the Himalayas leaves scientists perplexed

The Independent  

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Remains of massive creature that lived alongside the world's first humans discovered in Iowa
7 months ago

Remains of massive creature that lived alongside the world's first humans discovered in Iowa

Daily Mail  

The remains of a giant creature that roamed Earth alongside the first humans have been unearthed in Iowa. Archaeologists found several bones and massive skull of a 13,600-year-old mastodon buried deep in the mud of a creek bank, marking the state's first well-preserved specimen. Archaeologists in Iowa have unearthed remains of a mastodon that lived in the area more than …

Scientists discover what wiped out the largest great ape to ever live
1 year, 2 months ago

Scientists discover what wiped out the largest great ape to ever live

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “When food starts to be scarce, it’s so big it can’t climb trees to explore …

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
1 year, 7 months ago

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research. Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for …

Newly-discovered Oldest Known Primate Fossil Suggests Our First Ancestor Saw Dinosaurs
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Newly-discovered Oldest Known Primate Fossil Suggests Our First Ancestor Saw Dinosaurs

News 18  

By the time humans arrived on the scene, dinosaurs had long vanished from the face of the Earth. Fossils of the oldest known primate life-form have been analysed to discover they lived around 65.9 million years old. The fossils belong to genus Purgatorius which is recognised by most biologists to belong in group plesiadapiforms— oldest known primate. Elaborating on the …

Discovery of two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws new light on human evolution
4 years, 3 months ago

Discovery of two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws new light on human evolution

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'Old World' Monkey Fossils Dating Back 6.4 Millions Years Discovered in China
4 years, 5 months ago

'Old World' Monkey Fossils Dating Back 6.4 Millions Years Discovered in China

News 18  

In some exciting news for natural history enthusiasts, paleontologists have discovered an Old World monkey fossil in China this week. The 6.4 million-year-old fossils of the species were discovered in the Shuitangba lignite mine in the northeastern Yunnan Province of China. The study says that the discovery of fossil elements are very important as they represent the oldest known monkeys …

Fossil of Newly Discovered Ape Species, Dating Back 13 Million Years, Unearthed in Uttarakhand
4 years, 6 months ago

Fossil of Newly Discovered Ape Species, Dating Back 13 Million Years, Unearthed in Uttarakhand

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An international team of researchers has unearthed a 13-million-year-old fossil of a newly discovered ape species in Uttarakhand, which is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The fossil, a complete lower molar, belongs to a previously unknown genus and species, and represents the first new fossil ape species discovered at the famous fossil site of Ramnagar in nearly …

Researchers unearths 13-million-year-old fossil ape in Uttarakhand
4 years, 6 months ago

Researchers unearths 13-million-year-old fossil ape in Uttarakhand

India TV News  

An international team of researchers has unearthed a 13-million-year-old fossil of a newly discovered ape species in Uttarakhand, which is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The fossil, a complete lower molar, belongs to a previously unknown genus and species, and represents the first new fossil ape species discovered at the famous fossil site of Ramnagar in nearly …

13-Million-Old Fossil Found in India May Be Ancient Ancestor of Modern-Day Ape
4 years, 6 months ago

13-Million-Old Fossil Found in India May Be Ancient Ancestor of Modern-Day Ape

News 18  

Palaeontologist Christopher Gilbert discovered a 13-million-year-old fossil from northern India that appears to be the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery has been published in the article “New Middle Miocene ape from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record” in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Gilbert and his team were searching …

12 million-year-old ape fossil with straight legs could be missing link between primates and humans
5 years, 4 months ago

12 million-year-old ape fossil with straight legs could be missing link between primates and humans

Daily Mail  

A 'missing link' between humans and our ape-like ancestors that lived around 12 million years ago has been unearthed in Bavaria, Germany. According to researchers, the bizarre creature had arms suited to hanging in trees but legs like ours — making it like an 'ape and human in one' The discovery provides the first image of what the last common …

Jawbone of ancient human ancestor is found 11,000 feet up in the Himalayas
5 years, 10 months ago

Jawbone of ancient human ancestor is found 11,000 feet up in the Himalayas

Daily Mail  

Archaeologists have discovered Denisovans, the ancient human ancestor, lived on the oxygen-starved Tibetan Plateau 11,000 feet above sea level 160,000 years ago. The Denisovan jawbone was originally discovered in 1980 by a local monk who donated it to the sixth Gung-Thang Living Buddha, a Buddhist Lama, or teacher, who passed it to Lanzhou University for the research Traces of Denisovan …

Fossil teeth reveal Neanderthals developed distinct features as far back as 450,000 years ago
6 years, 5 months ago

Fossil teeth reveal Neanderthals developed distinct features as far back as 450,000 years ago

Daily Mail  

Fossil teeth dating back to the Middle Pleistocene roughly 450,000 years ago could help to piece together the timeline of ancient humans in Eurasia. The remains from the sites of Fontana Fanuccio and Visogliano in Italy suggest Neanderthal dental features had already evolved by the Early-Middle Pleistocene, supporting theories that the Neanderthal lineage diverged from our own early on. The …

This oldest human fossil discovered outside Africa is redefining the migration timeline of Homo Sapiens
7 years, 1 month ago

This oldest human fossil discovered outside Africa is redefining the migration timeline of Homo Sapiens

India Today  

Part of an upper jaw with teeth has been discovered in Israel. Read: 300,000-year-old oldest Homo sapiens fossil changes human evolution story Where was the fossil discovered? "Perhaps the co-occurrence of this tool type with early Homo sapiens at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco-and now with modern humans at Misliya-indicates some association of the development of this technology in Africa and western …

Researchers Discover Fossilized Jawbone That May Alter Homo Sapiens' Timeline
7 years, 1 month ago

Researchers Discover Fossilized Jawbone That May Alter Homo Sapiens' Timeline

Huff Post  

The fossil of the left part of the upper jaw of a young adult ― the person’s sex remains unclear ― came from Misliya Cave on Mount Carmel’s western slopes about 7.5 miles south of Haifa. Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa, with the earliest-known fossils roughly 300,000 years old. Until now, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils outside Africa had …

Fossil found in Israeli cave may change the story of human migration out of Africa
7 years, 2 months ago

Fossil found in Israeli cave may change the story of human migration out of Africa

LA Times  

The story of how and when modern humans first left Africa may be more ancient and more complex than anyone knew. “For more than 50 years most anthropologists thought modern humans left Africa around 100,000 years ago,” said Israel Hershkovitz, the professor of anthropology at Tel Aviv University in Israel who led the work. “This changes the whole concept of …

300,000-year-old oldest Homo sapiens fossil changes human evolution story
7 years, 9 months ago

300,000-year-old oldest Homo sapiens fossil changes human evolution story

India Today  

Researchers have found the oldest fossils till date of Homo sapiens. Till now, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils found were from the site of Omo Kibish in Ethiopia and were dated to be from around 195,000 years ago. However, this recent finding tells us that Homo Sapiens or modern humans evolved around 100,000 years earlier! The excavation site of Jebel …

Scientists discover nine million-year-old ape fossils in Himachal Pradesh hills
7 years, 10 months ago

Scientists discover nine million-year-old ape fossils in Himachal Pradesh hills

Firstpost  

In a significant development in research on human evolution, scientists have found that a very primitive ape-like ancestor which was hitherto considered a native of only Eurasia had existed in India too. By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan New Delhi: In a significant development in research on human evolution, scientists have found that a very primitive ape-like ancestor which was hitherto considered a …

A 12.3 million-year-old story of Indians
8 years, 1 month ago

A 12.3 million-year-old story of Indians

The Hindu  

A new museum in Kolkata tells the tale of how modern humans in the Indian subcontinent evolved from ancestors who arrived about 12.3 million years ago from Africa, during the Pleistocene era. Ancient stone tools The original artefacts in the newly opened museum include stone tools from the Pleistocene era, about 70,000- 80,000 years old and microliths dating back 10,000 …

Renewing history! Scientists locate unknown ancestor of man in Andaman
8 years, 8 months ago

Renewing history! Scientists locate unknown ancestor of man in Andaman

India TV News  

In a discovery that could potentially challenge the history of human evolution, an Indo-Spanish team of researchers caught hold of a centuries old, but still unknown descendant of a new family of early men in India’s Andaman island. Although there isn’t a fossil record of them yet, but the team, which comprises of researchers from the National Institute of BioMedical …

Fossils suggest early humans ventured east 3.5 million years ago
9 years ago

Fossils suggest early humans ventured east 3.5 million years ago

Daily Mail  

Australopithecus afarensis was one of the longest-lived and best known early human species that originated in Africa. So far, all other A. afarensis fossils had been identified from the centre of the Rift Valley, shown on map THE COMPLEX EVOLUTION OF MAN 55 million years ago - First primitive primates evolve 15 million years ago - Hominidae evolve from the …

50k-year-old Siberian skull may belong to a Neanderthal or Denisovan
9 years, 7 months ago

50k-year-old Siberian skull may belong to a Neanderthal or Denisovan

Daily Mail  

Ancient human remains from a Siberian cave dating back 50,000 years or more could provide a missing link in understanding how modern humans evolved. Professor Andrey Krivoshapkin, head of Archaeology and Ethnography at Novosibirsk State University, said he believes the skull fragments may belong to a Neanderthal or another extinct species of human that lived in Asia known as the …

Ethiopia remains put new species on human family tree
9 years, 9 months ago

Ethiopia remains put new species on human family tree

CNN  

Story highlights Researchers say they have found teeth and jawbones belonging to a new species of human ancestor The remains, dating back 3.3 million to 3.5 million years, were found in Ethiopia's Afar desert region CNN — Meet Australopithecus deyiremeda, a newly discovered species of hominin that sheds light on our earliest ancestors, scientists say. The name, Australopithecus deyiremeda, derives …

Jawbone of 'first man' goes on display: 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor fossil is unveiled in Arizona
10 years ago

Jawbone of 'first man' goes on display: 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor fossil is unveiled in Arizona

Daily Mail  

A momentous and valuable piece of our evolutionary history has gone on display to the public. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's 2.8 million years ago - LD 350-1 appeared and may be the first of the Homo family 2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing 2.3 million years ago …

Fossilised skull of young ape unearthed in China
11 years, 6 months ago

Fossilised skull of young ape unearthed in China

India TV News  

Beijing: A six-million-year-old fossilised cranium of a juvenile ape has been unearthed in China in a rare find that has paleontologists hoping it may help unravel the mystery of human origins. The remains found in southwest China's Yunnan Province is only the second recovered cranium belonging to a juvenile ape inhabiting Eurasia in the Miocene epoch that dates back to …

Human ancestors 'smaller than rats'
11 years, 9 months ago

Human ancestors 'smaller than rats'

India TV News  

Beijing, June 6: Early ancestors of human beings might be “miniscule monkeys” smaller than rats, an international study has said. Studies of the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, unearthed in central China's Hubei Province in 2003, suggest that the early ancestors of humans might be very small creatures.The nearly complete skeleton belongs to a new genus and species named …

Long-tailed monkey oldest primate yet found › News in Science (ABC Science)
11 years, 9 months ago

Long-tailed monkey oldest primate yet found › News in Science (ABC Science)

ABC  

News in Science Long-tailed monkey oldest primate yet found Primate evolution Palaeontologists have discovered the fossilised remains of a tiny tree-dwelling creature that lived around 55 million years ago, making it the oldest primate ever found. Radically different "Archicebus differs radically from any other primate, living or fossil, known to science," says co-researcher Chris Beard of the Carnegie Museum of …

Fresh Evidence Adds Weight to Human Ancestor's Identity
13 years, 11 months ago

Fresh Evidence Adds Weight to Human Ancestor's Identity

Wired  

MINNEAPOLIS -- Fossils described last year as representatives of an ancient species critical to human evolution have reentered the scientific spotlight and set off a new round of debate over the finds’ true identity. It’s now clear that A. sediba shares more skeletal features with early Homo specimens than any other known Australopithecus species does, said Darryl de Ruiter of …

African fossils may fit gap between apes, humans
14 years, 11 months ago

African fossils may fit gap between apes, humans

The Hindu  

Two skeletons nearly two million years old and unearthed in South Africa are part of a previously unknown species that scientists say fits the transition from ancient apes to modern humans. “These fossils give us an extraordinarily detailed look into a new chapter of human evolution and provide a window into a critical period when hominids made the committed change …

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