For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

This important study shows that the activity of hypothalamic hypocretin/orexin neurons (HONs) correlates with body movement over multiple behaviors. Sophisticated techniques and analyses showcase this ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

He shaped Catholic doctrine for centuries, arguing for faith based on reason and science, and offering five logical 'proofs' ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Using the skull’s thickness in the erosion area as an evaluation index, it investigates the effects of deadman parameters, such as floating height, maximum diameter, eccentricity, porosity, and bottom ...

“We walked onto this little island here, and we were pretty shocked at what we found.” Skulls. Human. Lots of ‘em. “Human skulls,” MacRae continues. “They’re literally everywher ...

Mattress toppers are a cost-effective way to add comfort-boosting materials to your bed, but you should also consider thickness as well as price and quality when choosing a bed topper. But how ...