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.

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 ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

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 ...

Elko County deputies opened a homicide investigation after human skeletal remains were found near Devil's Gate, north of ...

Your skeleton is 20 pounds of miracle, contributing to your mood, memory, and metabolism. Learn why better mental health may, ...

A 476,000-year-old wooden log structure has been discovered in Kalambo Falls, built centuries before the appearance of Homo ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

When in-person teaching resumed for the Spring 2022 semester, Anthropology Professor Marni LaFleur, PhD, introduced a new tool to enhance her students’ learning experience – bone boxes containing half ...

The Grinch is one of the holiday season's most familiar icons. The grumpy, green, fur-covered misanthrope who plotted to ...

Study reveals 20 DNA markers in fast-twitch muscle that predict age within 4 years and explain why sprinting declines before ...