The birds of today descended from the dinosaurs of yore. Researchers have known relatively little, however, about how the bird's brain took shape over tens of millions of years. "Birds are one of ...

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor. She was once a hardy survivor in an ...

He is now 74 and lives in Burgos, Spain, as a scientist affiliated with the National Center for Research on Human Evolution, far from the spotlight that focused on Lucy when she was presented to the ...