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Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

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A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo.

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