South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

This year "Jaws" celebrates its 50th anniversary. Its success reflects the enduring importance of our most ancient fear: ...

Tridecanoic acid (C13) is a rare, odd-chain saturated fatty acid produced mainly by gut and rumen microbes, entering ...

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

The nose tends to be one of the most noteworthy features on a person's face. But what is the origin of the human nose, and ...

Michael Petraglia, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, takes the bone as a sign that H. luzonensis was a proficient toolmaker and hunter.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

Standing in the middle of Exploring Human Origins, actor Anna Hazard, who is reading some of the poetry tonight, said the exhibit creates a little bit of a museum-type maze in a very small space. “You ...