International scientists, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near ...

With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had ...

A cranial capacity of approximately 1,700 milliliters – significantly larger than both their predecessors and many modern humans. To put this in perspective, the average modern human brain size is ...

Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to ...

Fossils from Xujiayao. (Wu, 2024) "Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize ...

Scientists discover new species of human ancestors, Homo juluensis. Credit: Adam Fagen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A team of researchers has identified a new human species that vanished approximately 200,000 ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby ... which holds clues to the anatomy of the foot and how it's being used. A fossil footprint in ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...

Hatala is an expert in foot anatomy. He and his colleagues conducted a detailed analysis of the prints at the site. They used two- and three-dimensional measurement techniques based on scans taken of ...

This research challenges long-standing views and underscores the steady, incremental nature of human brain evolution. Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree ...

Species in the human lineage are called hominins. Footprints provide information on anatomy, locomotion, behavior and environments that skeletal fossils or stone tools cannot. The feet of these ...

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