Iron Age teeth from southern Italy have become time capsules, preserving intimate details of childhood and diet. Growth lines in the enamel reveal moments of early-life stress, while hardened plaque ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

Nearly 40% of adults report feeling self-conscious about their smile, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

A new scientific study led by paleontologist Stephen Chester, an Anthropology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, is shedding fresh light on how the earliest known primate ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The newer, more complete specimen allowed the team to finally map the globally-distributed group's strange anatomy ...

The fossil does more than add a new specimen, it adds a test case. According to the University of Minnesota release, microscopic analysis of the bones confirmed Alnashetri was an adult of at least ...

Brooklyn has always been a place that celebrates the unusual and the unexpected, and The Bone Museum fits right into that tradition. This is a borough that’s never been afraid to be different, to ...