The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
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How paleontologists are using fossilized shark teeth to date the past
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...
First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...