For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Is man's ability to perceive the form of objects inborn or must it be learned? Experiments indicate that it is innate but ...

They said it’d be “peaceful fossil hunting.” They didn’t mention the part where every rock looks like wood and every stick ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect ...

A new study from Washington University in St. Louis published in Communications Biology presents compelling evidence to ...

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily ...