Paleontologists diving beneath the surface of a water-filled cave in Madagascar made a monumental find: a graveyard filled with the bones of a wide variety of species,some very rare, other extinct for ...

Madagascar is an natural wonder, brimming with creatures that have evolved in the island’s “splendid isolation.” But Madagascar’s endemic fauna was even more spectacular in the not-too-distant past.

Box and whisker plots of δ 13 C values (in ‰) for fossil hominin enamel, fossil cercopithecoid enamel, and subfossil lemur bone collagen. Sample sizes are shown in parentheses. Lemur collagen δ 13 C ...

In his 1960 presidential address to the South African Archaeological Society, the anthropologist Louis Leakey cast the fossil humans that had been found in that country as little more than a ...

The fossil 'monkey lemur' Hadropithecus stenognathus has long excited palaeontologists because its skull bears an astonishing resemblance to those of robust australopiths, an enigmatic side branch of ...

Reconstruction by the artist Stephen Nash of a Hadropithecus individual as it may have appeared in life. Pelage coloration and distribution are, of course, conjectural. Clinching evidence that the two ...

Researchers have used computed tomography technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, discovered over a century ago. The skull ...

Penn State researchers have used computed tomography (CT) technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, which was discovered over a ...

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This image shows how the pieces of the skull of Hadropithecus fit together (in front, superior, inferior, and left lateral views). The white portions are original fossils discovered in 1902. The areas ...

EDMONTON, Alberta, March 24 (UPI) -- Canadian-led scientists analyzing the first hand bones found of the ancient Hadropithecus lemur have discovered a mysterious joint structure. University of Alberta ...

Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has ...