Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

The short, thick mandible has unusually large teeth and a strong jaw compared to other human fossils found in East Asia, according to anthropologists. The discovery suggests that it belonged to an ...

Breaking new ground in our understanding of early human diet and evolution, scientists have discovered that our ancient ...

Launched in September, the group aims to encourage more Marylanders to fossil hunt via learning the basics from webinars and ...

providing evidence from the jawbone and teeth that support the common ancestry of the three species, according to the study. Chinese scientists have previously discovered dozens of human fossils ...

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans. The archaeological record ...

Teeth reveal roughly how old a person ... this creature likely had a face more like a gorilla's than like a human's today. Taking their cues from the fossils, paleoartists have depicted A.

Archaeologists have unearthed the smallest known cat fossil at a site inhabited by archaic humans in eastern China. This diminutive feline, which has been identified as an extinct species of leopard ...

Nov. 27, 2024 — Brain size increased gradually within each ancient human species rather than through sudden leaps between ... The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an analysis of ...