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Scientists who study primates say that we are moving towards a time when species like gorillas will no longer be found in the wild . They say Orangutans would be gone too. And Madagascar would lose its lemurs. Jo Setchell is a primatologist at Durham

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By David McAlary Scientists have discovered fossils of an ancient, tiny species of human in an isolated part of Indonesia. They are bones from what they say is a smaller version of the now extinct imm

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