Debi Bolter, of Sonora, will give an update on paleoarchaeological findings stretching back 2 million years in South Africa at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, at Angelo’s Hall in Columbia.

While most second-graders spend their days learning about the present, the students at Pagosa Peak Open School (PPOS) are ...

The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet. Scientists have finally ...

Photo: S Remi passes around the 3-D printed skull of “Lucy”, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in ...

The reptile was named Crocodylus lucivenator, meaning “Lucy’s hunter.” The name references Lucy, one of the most famous early ...

Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human evolution across Africa.

A "dominant" crocodile-like predator with a big lump on its head preyed on man's ancestors three million years, ago, ...

Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our ...

Little Foot's skull was distorted and damaged, so researchers spent years digitally reassembling the bones to understand what the individual's face might have looked like 3.67 million years ago.

What did the face of one of our ancestors look like more than 3 million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by virtually reconstructing the facial fragments of Little Foot, ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...