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Living fossils

Old worms

We evolved, thank god

New find confirms water-land transition, evolutionary theory

Where did Homo erectus first appear?

The antedating of two fossils of Homo erectus -- our immediate ancestors -- has shaken a long-held belief that humans originated in Africa

The greatest of 'em all

Evolution with full stops and commas

Darwinian sapience takes a beating as the notion of 'punctuated equilibrium' - which postulates that evolution occurred in sudden fits and starts -…

New dinosaur species

The jigged jaw Puzzle

A new fossils throws open the debate on Homo erectus

Nicole, the prehistoric

A dealer of rare fossils says he has found a dinosaur egg containing an intact embryo

Ancestral relations

The recent discovery of 800,000-year-old fossils may provide an insight into the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals

Reptilian riddle

The last of the dinosaurs could have inhabited parts of central India

Faking history

Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground

The last fetter

-- involving use of symbolic communication -- there is evidence that our ancestors could speak.

What would it mean to decolonise palaeontology? Here are some ideas

Nobody knows what decolonised palaeontology will look like but part of it must acknowledge Africa’s original fossil hunters, without&…

Scientists find nine-million-year-old ape fossils in Himachal Pradesh

Scientists discovered the surprise fossil during an excavation in Haritalyangar in Shiwalik hills region in Himachal Pradesh

Fossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years

Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in …

Mammoth mollusc

Oldest remains

A continental jigsaw

A new study sheds more light on how Argentina came into its present form

Prehistoric flyer

Mother of all birds

Scientists say that the world's biggest bird ever is the prehistoric Australian ostrich

Nobody out there

Two new analyses pronounce death for the claim of life on Mars

ETHIOPIA

Happy threesome?

Three human species which scientists earlier believed came one after the other, may have actually coexisted in Java