The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Premise: The series, which aired as part of TGIF lineup, followed Marty DePolo, a teenage boy who dies after eating a 6-month ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.