Still, birds have diverged in crucial ways from their reptilian predecessors. One vital turning point was their development of larger brains, which spurred changes in skull size and shape. Unlike many ...

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a hominid skull, nicknamed “Dragon Head,” near Hualongdong that doesn’t fit ...

robustus, also known as a robust australopithecine due to the large size of its teeth and face. But very few fossils of the body of P. robustus have ever been found, making the new discovery important ...

A fossil leopard lower jaw next to a juvenile P. robustus skull fragment from Swartkrans. (Image credit: Jason L. Heaton) Size is a mystery Although the leg bones provide important new evidence ...

If he’s to survive, they will need to drill a hole into his skull and relieve the pressure. Ouch. If you’ve watched The Pitt, ER, or any other medical drama, you’re no doubt familiar with ...

Australopithecus relied primarily on plant-based diets, not meat, challenging the long-held belief that meat consumption drove human brain evolution. The wide variation in nitrogen isotope values ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could run. Australopithecus afarensis ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans, gorillas and chimpanzees.

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...

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For many older South Koreans, the name "white skull squad" harks back to a dark time of violence and repression. It was first used in the 1950s, when the country's first president, Rhee Syngman ...