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EARLIEST ERAS

EOARCHEAN:

Oldest Evidence of Photosynthesis

PALEOARCHEAN:

Meteorite that Changed Earth's History

SINIAN (NEOPROTEROZOIC):

Fossil Secrets Revealed

Fossils from a Forgotten Time

Snowball Earth Theory Melted

How Life Survived the Big Freeze

The Tragic Life of the Ediacarans

PALAEOZOIC:

Molluscs Ruled before Dinosaurs

Genes Shed Light on Fish Fingers

An Ancient Jaws

Wilkes Land Permian Impact Crater

A Key Stage in Evolution

Gamma Rays & Mass Extinction

Permian Extinction Event

First Walker

MESOZOIC (DINOSAUR) ERA

Asia's Heaviest Dinosaur

Chinese Bird-Dinosaur Uncovered

Fossil Traces Deep Dinosaur Roots

T rex was 'Slow-Turning Plodder'

Tracks Suggest Swimming Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Den Diggers Discovered

First Flying Mammal

Australia's 'Nessie'

Jurassic Beaver

Oldest Tyrannosaurus rex Relative

Remains of 'Godzilla' Crocodile

Bigger Flying Dinosaurs

Cretaceous Duck in Antarctica

Bird-Like Repose

Feathered Embryo Bird & Four-Wings

Dinosaur Flight Origins

Feathered Dinosaurs

Origins of Flight

CENOZOIC (MAMMALIAN) ERA

MAPS:

Middle Miocene Coastline

Baby Mammoth Discovery Unveiled

Ancient American Bird was Glider

Mammal Rise Not Linked to Dinos

Terror Birds Never Met Humans

Sub-Tropical North Pole

The Birds which Ate Horses

When Mammoths Roamed England

When Whales Walked the Land

Primate Volcano Deaths

HOMINOIDS

MAPS:

Australopithecus sediba

Homo ergaster

Paranthropus robustus

Homo erectus

Gigantopithecus blacki

In Depth

IN DEPTH:

Hominid Chronology
A broad overview of the evolution of humans over 20 million years.

PRIMITIVE HOMINIDS & HOMINOIDS

SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS:

Evolution's Human/Chimp Twist

More Likely Human

Scientists Clash Over Skull

HOMO ERGASTER:

First West European Tooth Found

Climate Change marks the Dawn of Man

HOMO GEORGICUS:

Just who was Homo Georgicus?

Homo Georgicus cared for the Elderly

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS:

Ancient Skull found in Ethiopia

Earliest Man in Britain

Disaster may have killed Heidelbergensis

In the Beginning was the Vowel

HOMO FLORESIENSIS:

New Twist in 'Hobbit' Human Story

More Homo Floresiensis Finds

New Find is Homo Floresiensis

PRE-HOMO:

Upright Walking 'Began in Trees'

'Lucy's Baby' Discovery

Four Million Years BC

Ardipithecus Finds in Ethiopia

Primate Volcano Deaths

HOMO-SAPIENS & NEANDERTHALIS

BRITISH ISLES:

The Channel's Role in Pre-History

Waves of Migration to Britain

Ice Age Man in Britain

EUROPE:

Freeze Condemned Neanderthals

Hungry Neanderthals 'Turned Cannibal'

European Skull's Evolving Story

Cave Fossils are early Europeans

Last Refuge of the Neanderthals

Homo sapiens left Neanderthals Alone