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The extinction event that quietly rewrote evolution

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
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Homo erectus wasn't the first human species to leave Africa 1.8 million years ago, fossils suggest

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...
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Human fossils unearthed in Casablanca shed new light on a key phase of human evolution

Human fossils uncovered in a cave at the Thomas I quarry near Casablanca are offering fresh insight into a critical phase of ...
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Across China: New fossil analysis sheds light on evolutionary history of Jurassic Ginkgoalean plants

Global researchers recently made new progress in the systematics and evolutionary diversity of Mesozoic ginkgoalean plants, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the ...
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Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...