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Ancient teeth from Peru hint that now-extinct monkeys crossed the Atlantic from Africa

Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to new USC research just published in the journal Science.
Scientists digitally reconstruct skulls of dinosaurs in fossilised eggs

The fossilised skulls of dinosaur embryos that died within their eggs about 200m years ago, have been digitally reconstructed by scientists, shedding new light on the animals’ development, and how close they were to hatching.
Mysteries of decorated ostrich eggs in British Museum revealed

If you wanted to give an extravagant gift 5,000 years ago, you might have chosen an ostrich egg.
A study compares the parietal lobes in Neanderthals and modern humans

The Paleoneurobiology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), led by Emiliano Bruner, has just published a morphological analysis of the brains of Neanderthals and modern humans….
UNIVERSE MAY NOT BE EXPANDING THE SAME WAY IN ALL DIRECTIONS, NEW NASA AND ESA STUDY SUGGESTS, CHALLENGING FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF COSMOLOGY

Our universe may not be expanding at the same speed in all directions, according to a new study, challenging one of our basic ideas about the universe.