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

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

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

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 ...

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

William L. Jungers was born in Palacios on Nov. 17, 1948, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known biological ...

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

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

A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

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 ...

Photo: Second-grader Remi passes around the 3-D printed skull of “Lucy”, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Ethiopia. While most second graders spend their days learning about ...