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Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
Geotimes April 2005 Laura Stafford |
New Evidence for the Earliest Hominid Scientists say they have new evidence confirming that Toumai, a skull found in the deserts of Central Africa, is a new hominid species -- the oldest known to date. |
Scientific American July 2006 Blake Edgar |
Standing Up to Dance and Sing How we became hominid, then human.. These books explore our origins. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons... The Singing Neanderthals: The origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen. |
Geotimes September 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc. |
Geotimes August 2006 Jennifer Yauck |
Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in a remote area of China have unearthed unusually well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the surprisingly modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor. |
Smithsonian February 2005 Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans. |
Scientific American September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
Smithsonian November 2006 |
Wild Things: Life as We Know It The Dinosaurs Are Coming!... Timeworn Tot... It's a Snap... Observed... Listening to Luna... |
Geotimes February 2004 Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after. |
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck |
Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in China have unearthed well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor. |
Geotimes January 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
The Color of Crinoids Scientists have discovered complex organic molecules still preserved within 350-million-year-old crinoid fossils. Because the molecules are slightly different from species to species, the find could offer a new way to track the creatures' evolution through time. |
Geotimes May 2005 Megan Sever |
Inside the "Hobbit's" Head After studying the miniature hominid's skull and models of its brain, paleoanthropologists have determined that the Indonesian find is indeed a new species, not a Homo sapiens with a brain abnormality. |
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution. |
Geotimes April 2005 |
Redating the Earliest Humans Now 40 years later, researchers have pushed back the ages of Homo sapiens uncovered in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia to 195,000 years ago from the original date of 130,000. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
Geotimes May 2006 Megan Sever |
Hobbit's Species Status in Question A new study this week says that the hobbit, an 18,000-year-old diminutive hominid found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, should have never been called a new species, and that it instead is most likely a modern human with a brain abnormality. |