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

So, it’s the Skoda Source of Life in the Kenyan Cradle of Humankind. Classic Top Gear logic. Although having landed at our ...

Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...

Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the Handy Man in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ...

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

South African history is often simplified down to colonisation and apartheid. In truth, this is a restrictive view of the ...

Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, and Paranthropus aethiopicus are examined as a distinct but debated branch of early human evolution. Their huge molars, powerful jaws, sagittal crests, and ...

Left to right: The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet Scientists have finally revealed the face of “Little Foot,” a remarkably preserved early ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...