In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

With continued excavation at Swartkrans, researchers hope to uncover more of SWT1/HR-2’s skeleton, which could further ...

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the ...

By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the ...

Charred bones and hundreds of articles of clothing and other personal effects were found at a location dubbed by local media as the "ranch of horror." ...

Mexico's attorney general vowed to uncover the truth about what happened at a suspected drug cartel training ground where ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter — first described in 1883 by famed paleontologist Edward Drinker ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the Lapedo child’s curious blend of human and Neanderthal traits. The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and ...