A new study suggests the celebrated Taung Child - one of the most important fossils ever discovered - belonged to a far more complex world of early human relatives than scientists had imagined.

Of 109 people in a Quaker burial ground in North Shields, England, whose birth years could be estimated, 91 were born within 10 years after a major volcanic eruption. Dr. Ellen Kendall of Durham ...

The placenta is essential for a healthy pregnancy, but the earliest steps of its formation have been hidden from scientific ...

Discover how a fossil is revealing a far more complex family tree that adapted to millions of years of climate change.

The Taung Child helped redirect the search for human origins toward Africa. More than a century after its discovery, the ...

A century after the Taung Child permanently altered our view of human origins, a new study published in Nature dates the famous fossil to between 2.96 ...

A century after the Taung Child permanently altered our view of human origins, a new study published in npj Palaeoecosystems ...

Durham University researchers analysed teeth from Coach Lane Quaker cemetery in North Shields and found climate shocks may ...

A study of 108 dental casts from Peruvian mestizo adults found that maxillary anterior tooth crowns are significantly larger ...

Analysis of 18th-century teeth shows that rickets in early industrial England was primarily caused by reduced UV radiation ...