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An analysis of the soft tissues of humans and bonobos shows the evolutionary changes over the last 4-5 million years.

HOMINIDS

Tyrannosaurus rex (pronounced tie-RAN-oh-SOR-us REX) is a non-avian tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that appeared roughly 68 million years ago and went extinct in the K-T extinction, about 66 million years ago in North America. Tyrannosaurus is one of the heaviest land predators of all time, and is the largest known land predator ever to roam the Northern Hemisphere, among meat eating dinosaurs. The overall size of Tyrannosaurus is somewhat debated, but the most dependable estimates put it…

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Hominids

As humans, we pretty much rode on dumb luck to the top of the world.

The last time I looked at an old issue of National Geographic, it was from 1978, when the ideas put forward in the Dinosaur Renaissance were starting to take hold in the popular imagination. Fifteen years later, and Vol. 183, No. 1 shows just how much progress had been made. What's especially fascinating about this issue of Nat Geo is that it not only looks at the current state of the science, but also how dinosaurs were enjoying a resurgence in popularity among the general public at the…

Homo erectus was an ancient human ancestor that lived between 2 million and 100,000 years ago. It had a larger body and bigger brain than earlier human ancestors.