That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

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In December's edition of Ask Me Anything, we get to know paleoartist, Jorge Plata as he takes his through his work at the ...

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The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of scientists in London may have found a way to repair tooth enamel using an ingredient found in an unexpected place: human hair. Researchers at King’s College London experimented with keratin, ...

Have you ever wondered if slugs can smile — or if they even have teeth? How a slug eats is surprisingly complex!

Freshly unearthed jaw bones and teeth that were found close to a previously discovered foot suggest human relatives tried several ways of walking before honing in on one strategy. When you purchase ...

For more than a century, filmmakers worldwide have brought vampires to life on screens big and small across hundreds of interpretations. While cinematic bloodsuckers have ranged from the ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us "see" infrared ...