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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

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Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils

You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest fossils

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Berger 1

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The fossil finder extraordinaire who's rewriting human evolution

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Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

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Fossilised worm holes

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Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

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Picture showing one of the footprints discovered on a Greek island

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Controversial footprints suggest we evolved in Europe not Africa

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a partially excavated skull

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Ancient skull belonged to a cousin of the ape common ancestor

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Patagotitan mayorum replica

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Largest ever dinosaur may have been as long as 7 elephants

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Borealopelta markmitchelli fossil

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Big, armoured dinosaur still had camouflage to evade predators

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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

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Oldest mass animal stranding revealed in Death Valley fossils

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A virtual reconstruction of Rangea from CT scans

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See inside the 580-million-year-old creature no one understands

We know very little about the Ediacaran organisms that lived on Earth before true animals, but scans are now revealing what they looked like on the inside

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See the 'tuskers' hunting woolly mammoths in Siberian permafrost

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The eyes have it: How spotting naive prey made fish walk on land

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Tanzanian volcano blast could destroy ancient hominin footprints

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A mouthful of history: How teeth reveal our evolutionary past

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