URLs: furless animal found in Sichuan; Hominid Species Discovery Shows Transition Between Apes, Humans
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"Mysterious animal Trapped in China": a kind of civet, a small carnivorous animal akin to the mongoose:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7088318.ece
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/mysterious-oriental-yeti-trapped-in-china/19428455

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"Hominid Species Discovery Shows Transition Between Apes, Humans":
PBS Newshour, April 8, 2010: http://tiny.cc/eawqg ; original:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/04/new-hominid-species-shows-transition-between-apes-humans.html

several articles in the category: "Human-origins", starting with:
"Fossils found in a South African cave pit mark an important transition between the 3.2 million-year-old pre-human known as Lucy and our own branch of the evolutionary family tree":
http://novascience.wordpress.com/category/human-origins/

Science (free to registered users):
"Special Feature: Australopithecus sediba", including the paper:
"A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa" by L. Berger
http://www.sciencemag.org/extra/sediba/

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