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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

24 October 2017

Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported
Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

23 October 2017

A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction

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