Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Learn more about a new technology that is turning ancient teeth into one of archaeology’s most powerful tools.

Dolphin study links strong male friendships to slower biological aging. Research tracked 38 dolphins using DNA to measure ...

Domesticated cats may have arrived in the West much later than previously thought, according to new research published on Thursday. Cats began their relationship with humans quite early, with evidence ...

August 14, 2025 – From July 20-26, 18 Hendrix College students participated in the second year of the Leadership in Environmental Analysis for the People (LEAP) program, led by professors Courtney ...

1 Institute of Molecular Anthropology, Paris, France. 2 Laboratory of Physico-Chemical Analysis, UST de Compiègne, Compiègne, France. 3 Institute of Physics of the Globe, Paris, France. We have ...

More than a century after their deaths, the identities of the Sugar Land 95—African American laborers under Texas’s convict-leasing system—remain unknown. Now, the Principal Research Group, a ...

Ken Keiler studies basic molecular biology with the aim of developing new antibiotics. Three faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the 2024 American Association ...

Researchers have proposed that the ability to grow long scalp hair in humans originated from an ancient molecular program that was reactivated by evolutionary factors, such as walking upright.

A devastating syphilis outbreak swept Europe in the late 15th century, sparking debate over whether the disease originated in the Americas or existed in Europe before Columbus’s expeditions. Recent ...

A forensic business is stepping in to help families in Indigenous communities find answers about missing and murdered indigenous people (MMIP). Ohkomi Forensics is a non-profit based in Montana that ...

The Rocky Mountain Biological Anthropology Association held its third annual conference Saturday, Oct. 5, at the SpringHill Suites Denver Downtown on the Auraria Campus. RMBAA is one of the many ...