For almost a million years, A. afarensis lived throughout East Africa, and paleoanthropologists have found numerous fossils ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Can a new database of 3D bone scans help solve the mystery of the elusive ngudlukanta?

‘Penelope’s Bones’ Review: Queens of the Bronze Age The women of Greece’s oldest civilization wove fabrics, carried weapons and wept over their lost children. By A.E. Stallings Share ...

Fossils of Australopithecus, Kenyanthropus, and Paranthropus species show a mix of adaptations that have ape-like and human-like characteristics. The most recent genus, Homo, includes species that ...

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.

While time loop horror isn’t novel, the choice allows “Until Dawn” to escape merely replicating the original game while also commenting on the game's choose-your-own-adventure format.

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island ...

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...