"Skeleton Keys" reveals the secrets hidden inside your bones
Read now →Brian Switek's book breathes new life into our understanding of old bones
How did human butts evolve to look that way?
Read now →An evolutionary anthropologist tackles the mystery of the butt
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Did humans evolve to eat raw, aged, or cooked meat? I tried to test digestion
Read now →That's how I ended up feeding raw meat to undergrads
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The history of humanity is written across your smile
Read now →'The Tales Teeth Tell' traces the evolution of our teeth into "oral Swiss army knives"
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The bugs your primate ancestors loved to eat found a way into your genes
Read now →The original paleo diet lives on in humans today
The slap-dash nature of evolution makes entertaining reading
Read now →Nathan Lents' new book details the accidental, incidental nature of human quirks
Humans in South America evolved to live with arsenic poisoning
Read now →The toxic environment offers clues to ancient mummies and human evolution
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Unexpected gorilla snacking behaviors make scientists question what we know about early humans
Read now →Gorillas' eating habits don't match their tooth specializations, raising questions about determining early human diets from fossil records
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Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is
Read now →Understanding walrus-human interactions in the past might shed some light on the "walrus scene"
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How the pelvis, and not bipedalism, gave humans their narrow hips
Read now →The anatomy of our pelvis is a result of an evolutionary trade-off, but perhaps it's not the one we thought
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Turkeys on treadmills are helping anthropologists test the fossil record
Read now →Walk like a person, talk like a turkey
How did our ancestors start walking upright?
Read now →A newly discovered species of ancient ape could shed light on the origins of human bipedalism
Bonobos' penchant for aquatic herbs might be why we have such big brains
Read now →Iodine promotes brain development, but until now we did not know where our hominin ancestors may have gotten this mineral
Just in time for Halloween, the spookiest primate tricks the world with a hidden thumb
Read now →The aye-aye has been hiding a secret all this time: a sixth pseudodigit
A Denisovan jaw bone is discovered; ancient human relative skeleton becomes more complete
Read now →Previously, only fragments of bone and mitochondrial DNA linked Denisovans to Homo sapiens
Some spooky Halloween Archaeology facts from Massive Consortium member Darcy Shapiro
Read now →These true stories show that archaeology has plenty of terrifying discoveries to share