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02.17.16

Ancient wildebeest-like animal shared ‘bizarre’ feature with dinosaur

By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals unearthed on Kenya’s Rusinga Island, researchers have discovered that the little-known hoofed mammals had a very unusual, trumpet-like nasal passage similar only to the nasal crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaurs.

02.16.16

Group structure predicts variation in proximity relationships between male–female and male–infant pairs of mountain gorillas

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Dr. Rosenbaum and her team were recently published in the journal Primates. She was kind enough to provide us with a brief summary of this article as well as a related article published in the journal PLOS ONE.

01.21.16

Cranial evolution in modern humans and neanderthals

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Timothy Weaver was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant in the spring of 2010 for his project entitled “Cranial evolution: Neandertals and modern humans compared to chimpanzees.” Explaining the meaning of skeletal differences between neanderthals and modern humans has been a topic of debate since the discovery of neanderthals in 1856. Differences in cranial morphology have garnered… more »

01.08.16

Validation of an Acoustic Location System to Monitor Bornean Orangutan Long Calls

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Brigitte Spillmann, PhD candidate at the University of Zurich, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant in the spring of 2010 for her project entitled “The function(s) of a long-distance signal: The orangutan long call.” We recently featured a summary of her work along with her research report on our blog. Click here to read the post. We are now pleased to learn that she has published… more »

10.14.15

Homo sapiens to the East of Eden

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María Martinón-Torres is a Leakey Foundation grantee from the University College London. She and her team were recently published in the journal Nature for their work in Southern China. She has been kind enough to provide us with her summary and thoughts on the significance of this find. The discovery of 47 human teeth with unequivocally modern morphologies from a cave in southern China reveals that our… more »

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