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Extended family tree reveals human’s small, four-legged, insect-eating relative

This artist's rendering shows the hypothetical placental ancestor, a small insect-eating animal. (AFP)

Humans may have descended from apes, but long before that there was a small, four-legged insect-eating critter, according to new research out Thursday in the US journal “Science.” The international six-year study used a massive trove of data, including genetic and physical traits from both modern and prehistoric species, to…

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Extinct species Eritherium azzouzorum discovered in Morocco

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The three living species of the order Proboscidea, the savanna and forest African and Asian elephants, surely rank among the most bizarre and extraordinarily derived placental mammals. They are, however, relics of a long and once species-rich lineage. Thanks to a recently discovered fossil, we now know that this evolutionary march…

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