Of all the mammals, humans experience the longest period of childhood. Compared to other species, humans continue to grow and ...

In Kenya’s arid Turkana Basin, a team of scientists has recovered something unexpected from the jaws of long-dead giants.

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Scientists that studied the 2 million-year-old teeth of an extinct species of human believe they breastfed to deal with seasonal food shortages. The authors of the study, published in the journal ...

An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research, published today in Nature, not only provides exciting ...