Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

Instead, the real virtue of the short attention span is in the itch. The one that compels people to keep flicking until they ...

Dental remains confirm that Homo Naledi belongs to the Homo genus, though their timeline placement remains uncertain. The emergence of an ancient Australopithecus or Paranthropus species surviving ...

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

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

And we did not find this pitting in the southern Africa species Australopithecus africanus, despite a large sample of more than 500 teeth. However, it does appear in the earliest Omo ...

Initially, we thought the pits might be unique to P. robustus. But our latest research shows this kind of pitting also occurs in other Paranthropus species in eastern Africa. We even found it in some ...