It does not look like a breakthrough at first. Just the faint outline of a foot, pressed into what was once soft ground and later hardened by time. No.

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 ...

"He cleared his throat. 'I want to say something, but I’m not sure I can.' He scrawled something and pushed it towards me." ...

One of the most famous hominin fossils may not be as familiar as we thought. The specimen, affectionately dubbed "Little Foot ...

Some people say that today there are almost no "blank spots" left on our planet - that is, places completely unexplored by ...

When Paul Tafforeau saw his first experimental scans of a COVID-19 victim’s lung, he thought he had failed. A paleontologist by training, Tafforeau had been laboring with a team strewn across Europe ...

From broad cheekbones and a flexible back to a small prefrontal cortex, here’s everything an anatomist thinks makes the ...

Jeremy Pauley is fixture in the online oddities trade, known for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. He ...

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

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze the genus Carcharhinus into a narrower ecological role. So, what happens to ...