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 ...

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 ...

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

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution. Changes in the appearance of ancient teeth could act as a new evolutionary marker, writes Ian Towle.

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 ...