A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (National ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human relative that lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis, the species of ...

More than 59 different primate species have been observed participating in some kind of same-sex behaviors, making it extremely common.

Learn how tiny fossils from Spain led to the discovery of Foskeia and a new chapter in dinosaur evolution.

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

As we move into the new year, we need more ruptures in mainstream thinking. It’s the cracks that let the light in.

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...