New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Bridge Thrift isn’t just a store – it’s an expedition, an archaeological dig through the artifacts of modern American life, and possibly the most entertaining way to spend an afternoon in Southern ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The Third Line’s landmark 20 th -anniversary exhibition, The Only Way Out Is Through: The Twentieth Line, curated by Shumon ...

Fossil evidence from Ethiopia has rewritten human history, showing Australopithecus lived one million years earlier than previously believed. These new findings bridge the gap between early ape-like ...

The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

Computer science higher education must embrace GenAI and reinvent teaching methods and learning materials, or risk becoming ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

Egyptian paleontologists have unearthed Wadisuchus kassabi, an 80-million-year-old fossil revealing Africa as the birthplace ...