By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve the ...

Featuring installations by Supermass Studio, LaGuardia Design Group, Oehme, van Sweden, and others, ‘Stone in Landscape ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal puppets will be performing in cities from Central Africa to the northern tip of Norway to raise ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Paleobiology Professor Kenshu Shimada is leading a study alongside 28 experts. A new scientific study offers significant ...

The Washington Post spoke to fired workers who explained their roles — and what the country is losing with the elimination of ...

This assessment was based on the discovery of certain cranial bones which indicated a large brain size ... Donald Johanson in 1974 discovered Lucy, the partial skeleton of a 3.2-million-year-old human ...

A new study, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, shows that human activity on hiking trails makes grizzly ... As for the choice of study animal, the researchers prioritized large carnivores ...

Former Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn has admitted to using human growth hormone because of the career-altering pain in his left knee. In 2007, Vaughn was named in the Mitchell Report as having ...