Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

The terms hominid and hominin are often used interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Hominids include all great apes, meaning humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, while ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity ...

A unique comedy improv approach called ‘The Experts’ starts off with a TED-talk style lecture by an actual expert in their field, followed by the comedy team at Lickety-Split improvising by taking ...

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

Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

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

What did the face of one of our ancestors look like more than 3 million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by virtually reconstructing the facial fragments of Little Foot, ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...

Beyond their value for classification and evolutionary relationships, changes in the size and shape of the hominin face through time can reflect important functional adaptations. The ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...