Ancient fossil may hold clues to right-handedness
Fossils reveal the earliest animal with a head was also the oldest known ‘righty’ If you happen to…
Fossil discovery solves 500-million-year-old mystery about the dawn of animal life
Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For…
773,000-year-old Moroccan cave fossils reveal human and neandertal evolutionary split
A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest…
AI helps scientists read dinosaur footprints, offering new clues to ancient life
Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for…