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Miniature mammoths

Smaller version of mammoths may have inhabited Egypt long after they were thought to have become extinct

Bees before blossoms

A new finding suggests that bees may have been around about 100 million years before flowering plants appeared

Pre-history revisited

The discovery of fossil tracks in Madhya Pradesh by an Indian scientist may turn back life's clock by 500 million years

Tales in stone

Palaeontologists have found what they had been looking for: a near-perfect dinosaur fossil from the Jurassic Age. They might finally be able to …

The missing link

Why do humans have such large brains? Switching over to eating meat may have been responsible

The feather link

A recently found dinosaur fossil reinforces the theory that birds are the descendants of dinosaurs

When the whales took to water

Fresh evidence supports a long-held belief that whales evolved from land mammals

Sounding it off

Dinosaur nesting site

In tiny specks

...is written the history of the Solar system's formation and life on the Earth

Out of Africa?

Human evolution and tubers

THE MISSING LINK

Dinosaur-bird a hoax

The 'missing link' is actually two animals put together

Tracing the roots

Before Adam came Zinj

Did Ardi walk for sex?

Are we getting hasty in ascribing gender roles to our oldest ancestor

Did dinosaurs go extinct due to malaria?

A new research shows that the first vertebrate hosts of malaria were reptiles including dinosaurs

Biological Big Bang was briefer than believed

New fossils discovered in Siberia indicate that marine life evolved over much less time than thought by scientists.

Loneliness of Narmada Human

Thirty years on, it remains the only fossil of early humans found on the subcontinent

Fact and film

Fossils found

Scientists unearth 178 million year-old dinosaur fossils in Kutch

For want of iodine

An iodine-deficient diet may be responsible for the Neanderthals' disappearance

No blood relation

Research has revealed that modern humankind has no genetic link with the Neanderthal people