Tulane University anthropologist Kit Nelson is the co-director of a National Geographic-sponsored team that is in the process of unraveling a mummy bundle found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley. The…

hominin fossils are the most important materials for exploring human origins and evolution. Since most hominin fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or…

Israelis and Palestinians working together? Indeed, when it comes to combating tuberculosis. Tuberculosis - or TB - is a deadly infectious bacterial disease that usually attacks the lungs.…

Most people who find a seashell during their summer holiday on the coast will probably not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For paleontologists, those hard calcium shells…

A new study challenges the long-held belief that diversity of marine species has been increasing continuously since the origin of animals. An international team carried out this decade-long study…

A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca by a French-Moroccan team co-led by Jean-Paul Raynal, CNRS senior researcher at the PACEA[1] laboratory (CNRS/…

New exquisitely preserved fossils from Latvia cast light on a key event in our own evolutionary history, when our ancestors left the water and ventured onto land. Swedish researchers Per Ahlberg and…

Paleontologists working in Antarctica have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods - land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million…

Analysis of DNA from the remains of ancient humans provides valuable insights into such important questions as the origin of genetic diseases, migration patterns of our forefathers and tribal and…

New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren’t all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground. Pterosaurs…