What is the earliest known hominid? What all are classified as hominids? What is the taxonomic species designation for Homo floresiensis? Which is the oldest hominid species to be unearthed? What are early hominids? What is the scientific name of the common chimpanzee? What did Homo erectus ...
Any of various primates of the family Hominidae, which includes orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern humans, and their extinct relatives. The family formerly included onlyHomo sapiens,extinct species ofHomo,and the extinct genusAustralopithecus. ...
Although there are members of the genus Homo known with primitive feet and relatively small brains (H. floresiensis6) and with derived feet and larger brains than H. naledi (for example, early H. erectus9), H. naledi is the first known hominin with this combination of such derived feet ...
Sahelanthropus tchadensisfrom the site of Toros-Menalla, Chad (Figure 1), discovered by the Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne (Brunetet al. 2002), may be the oldest hominin recovered thus far. However, the age ofSahelanthropuswas first determinedbiochronologically(Vignaudet a...
The oldest fossil malaria mosquito species, Anopheles rottensis, was found in the Upper Oligocene (Chattian) lacustrine strata of the Rott Formation of Germany (Harbach, 2013; Statz, 1944). However, the genus may have been established earlier, presumably sometime in the Upper Eocene epoch. ...
Dubbed Homo luzonensis, the species is one of the most important finds that will be out in the coming years, one scientist predicts.
The new discoveries represent the oldest known vertebrae for the genus Homo, Meyer announced last week at the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The fossils consist of one lumbar, two thoracic, and two cervical vertebrae. ...
To unearth the secrets of an ancient human relative, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger had to squeeze through a chute seven and a half inches wide—the length of a pencil.
The origin of crown group marsupials is thereby constrained by the age of the oldest fossils attributed to Marsupialia: the oldest known species of Peradectes (for example, P. minor) are from the early Palaeocene (middle Puercan, ca. 65.1 Myr ago)32, whereas the oldest known species of ...
not East African86suggesting that the SEAMA has linkages to both East and southern Africa. Although additional studies are needed to assess common patterns, the reptile and amphibians essentially exhibit some of the oldest species known from the SEAMA (e.g.,Nothophryne broadleyi, 18.65 Mya;Atheri...