September 10, 2018
Extinct gibbon found in Chinese tomb
About 2,200 years ago, a Chinese noblewoman was buried in a tomb with a menagerie of animals, including 12 horses, a leopard, a lynx and a …
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June 19, 2017
Bipedalism left its mark on human skull: Kangaroos and upright rodents show same signs
The transition to bipedal walking in our ancestors changed the hominin skeleton in many ways. New research looking at how upright walking …
November 15, 2016
Tiny bones pull India into the story of early primate evolution
Bones of an ancient rat-sized, tree-dwelling primate have recently been discovered in a coal mine in Gujarat, India, and may represent the most …
June 16, 2016
Could early Homo pass the sniff test?
Like modern humans, early hominins walked upright and had opposable thumbs, but their faces were more ape-like, with flattened noses and …
April 19, 2016
Humans evolved early to be more efficient sleepers
We humans spend about a third of our lives asleep. While that might sound like a lot, we require less sleep than most mammals. In a new study, …
November 12, 2015
Human hands not most advanced
Compared to chimpanzees, our recent evolutionary cousins, humans have long thumbs relative to our fingers. This trait has endowed our ancestors …
April 20, 2015
Earliest primates were tree dwellers
The first primates evolved shortly after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. But whether these small mammals lived …
January 5, 2012
Paleo Patrol: Primates of the Caribbean
The only monkeys you’ll find on the islands of the Caribbean today were brought there (intentionally or not) by people. But just a few thousand …
January 5, 2012
New cousin joins primate family tree - but it's also no missing link
Blogging on EARTH Darwinius — the purported primate “missing link” that made headlines last spring — is back, sort of. Scientists have now found …
January 5, 2012
"Missing link" or major hype?
A squirrel-sized primate that lived 47 million years ago in the rainforests of Europe may be the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans, …