A pregnant woman in Florida carried her baby daughter to full term despite knowing the child would not survive, hoping her ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin recently received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

Some patients don’t trust us. Others say they don’t need us. It’s time for us to think of ourselves not as the high priests ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists reconstructed the fossil of a skull found in Ethiopia, dating back 1.5 million years, and were stunned by what they learned. Digital reconstruction is an area of technology that allows ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

Relations between dogs and people are so normal and pervasive as to pass almost unregarded. Yet viewed objectively, this ...

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

According to Dr Baab, this may reflect the Gona population preserving traits from the earliest Homo erectus groups that left ...