1.   Recent fossil finds in Africa have excited interest among palaeontologists.

2.   A fossil find in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India has pushed back the earliest known date when whales walked the earth.

3.   A new fossil find from Kenya, announced in Science, has helped sort out one twist of primate evolution.

4.   DNA studies had hinted at the hippo-whale connection, but previous fossil finds appeared to contradict it.

5.   Johanson plans to spend two months per year, perhaps more, in the field searching for and interpreting fossil finds.

6.   Recent fossil finds have tipped the balance in favour of the dinosaur as the first creature to take to the air.

7.   Scientists had long thought that this period must have produced warmer temperatures, and the fossil find suggests that they are right.

8.   The report on the fossil find is being published in the British journal Nature.

9.   A report on the fossil find appears Friday in the journal Science.

10.   Fossil find suggests parrots coexisted with dinosaurs, researcher says.