New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to ...

A child's skull discovered in a South African quarry in 1924 changed human history. Named the Taung Child, this fossil proved ...

In 2023, two South African fossils were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflight: a 2 million-year-old Australopithecus sediba clavicle and a 250,000-year-old Homo naledi thumb bone.

By examining these chemical patterns in tooth enamel, we can determine whether animals primarily fed on trees and shrubs or ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil sites for understanding human origins during a presentation Tuesday in ...

These clues from ancient meals are enabling scientists to reconstruct pictures of entire ecosystems, including forests, wetlands and grasslands that existed at the time. It’s a reminder that in a very ...

Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

We’re in the Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya, a part of the world responsible for so many hominin fossil finds that it’s ...