Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese ...

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

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

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

The fossil cave system in Richards Spur, Oklahoma, is believed to be home to some of the oldest stalagmites in the world.

Ian Towle & Luca Fiorenza/The Conversation For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Some even hailed them as evidence of the “oldest human habit related to oral hygiene ... The characteristic gumline notches were found in just 4 percent of individuals across the species. Some of the ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...