Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

How do you safely move a 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-high rocket more than 4 miles from the assembly building to the launch pad and back? Flag down the Crawler-Transporter 2, or CT-2, the slow-moving ...

For decades, Kolkata was the center of the global skeleton trade, exporting tens of thousands of human skulls to the West. Bone merchants processed corpses into pristine teaching specimens, and ...

Frontal views of the first two Yunxian crania. Credit: Hua Tu et al. / CC BY-NC 4.0 Three ancient skulls found in central China are far older than scientists once believed, pushing back the timeline ...

If you run a finger along the front of your jaw, you’ll feel a small bump just below your lower lip. It’s easy to overlook, but that tiny feature – the human chin – is something no other living ...