New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before, and the breakthrough ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Abstract: As autonomous personal mobility vehicles (APMVs) are increasingly integrated into shared spaces, short-distance interactions between pedestrians and APMVs will become more frequent. To ...

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DENVER (KDVR) — A 41-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to tampering with a deceased human body. The sentence comes after the body of 29-year-old ...

In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...

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RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...