Spear wielding chimps go hunting, according to a report in BBC News, 22 February 2007 and Science News 3 March 2007. Researchers in Senegal have observed chimpanzees making spears from tree branches and then using them to hunt monkeys. The chimps broke branches off trees and trimmed the leaves and bark. Some also sharpened one […]
Tag: apes
Sediba Update
Sediba update, reported in BBC News, ScienceDaily and New Scientist 8 September 2011. In April 2010 we reported on the finding of fossils named Australopithecus sediba This creature was promoted as the best candidate for an ape that was in the process of evolving into a human. More details about the fossils have now been […]
More Hobbit Bones Found
More “Hobbit” bones found, as reported in Nature vol 437, p1012, 13 October 2005. Scientists excavating a cave on the Island of Flores in Indonesia have found a jaw bone, two arm bones and a shin bone that belong to Homo floresiensi. The new jaw is very similar to the first jaw in that it […]
Hobbit Wrist Bones
Hobbit wrist bones confirm creation research prediction. A study of the wrist bones of Homo floresiensis, otherwise known as “the Hobbit” was reported in BBC News Online 20 September 2007, ABC News in Science and Science vol 317, p1743, 21 September 2007. Since the bones of this creature were found on the Indonesian island of […]
Gorilla-Like Jaw Casts Doubt on Human Ancestor
Gorilla-like jaw casts doubt on human ancestor, according to a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, p6568, 17 April 2007. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have studied the jaw of a recently discovered Australopithecus afarensis fossil and found that it “closely matches that of gorillas”. They were surprised at this […]
Who is Talking?
”I had to speak to a bunch of humans instead” lamented science writer Gail Vines who wanted to talk to chimpanzees whilst gathering information for an article on chimp intelligence for New Scientist, 14 Oct, 2000, p39. One of the humans she spoke to was Daniel Povinelli who has researched learning in both chimps and […]
Ardi the Ape-Woman
Ardi the ape-woman described in ScienceNOW, BBC News and e! Science News, 1 Oct 2009, and Science, vol. 326, pp36-40 & 75-86, 2 Oct 2009. An international team of researchers has found a partial skeleton of a creature named Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed Ardi, in the Middle Awash region in Ethiopia. Isolated bones, bone fragments and […]
Seven Million Year Old Chad Skull
Seven million year old chad skull intrigues anthropologists according to reports in Nature Science Update 11 Jul 2002 and Nature, vol 418, p145, 11 Jul 2002. Michael Brunet of the University of Poitiers, France has found a skull with a chimp sized braincase, brow ridges like a gorilla, but smaller canines and thicker tooth enamel […]