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Primate archaeology: Digging up secrets of the monkey Stone Age

31 January 2018

The discovery that chimps and some monkeys have a long history of making tools is forcing us to rethink our own cultural evolution
Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

Young 'dinosauromorphs' may have begged for food like baby birds

26 January 2018

Tens of millions of years before dinosaurs evolved into birds, a proto-dinosaur had surprising features that suggest its young needed parental care after hatching

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