In 2023, two South African fossils were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic commercial spaceflight: a 2 million-year-old ...

Early human relatives experienced risky childbirth due to pelvic shape, revealing deep evolutionary roots of birth difficulty.

More than 4 million years ago, a new group emerged: the australopithecines. Fully bipedal, with modern human tooth patterns and reduced canines, they spread widely across Africa from south to east and ...

Travel back in time with Stacker through some of the most impressive archeological discoveries in the world, according to ...

We’re in the Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya, a part of the world responsible for so many hominin fossil finds that it’s ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil ...

Exploring How Human Evolution Continues to Shape Our Future While we have a fairly good grasp on how humans have evolved up ...

Debi Bolter, of Sonora, will give an update on paleoarchaeological findings stretching back 2 million years in South Africa at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, at Angelo’s Hall in Columbia.

These tails vary widely by anatomy and purpose—from the grippy tails of opossums to the balancing tails of kangaroos to the ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. When you purchase through links on our ...

William L. Jungers was born in Palacios on Nov. 17, 1948, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known biological ...