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The Missing link?: Scientists unveil lemur-like fossil at New York's American Museum of Natural History

Say hello to "Aunt Ida"- you'll find her 47million years back on your family tree. The lemur-like fossil, thought to be a missing link between today's primates and distant relatives, is on show at New York's American Museum of Natural History after being launched amid great fanfare by the city's mayor. The skeleton is so good that it still has an outline of fur and there are traces of its last meal. The female animal lived during the Eocene Period, when early primates developed....

Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs

A discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs. Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier. This has raised the question of whether many more of the creatures may have been covered with similar bristles, or "dino-fuzz". The team describe the fossil in the journal Nature. Hai-Lu You, a researcher from the Insitute of Geology in Beiji...