These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor in South Africa’s ...

One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an ...

One hundred years ago, the discovery of a skull in South Africa's North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an ...

Picture yourself at work in a quarried pit where limestone was mined using dynamite charges, just to find that after the smoke clears, there lies before you the face of a small child. It is a replica ...

Amid stacks of books in the front room of his house near Oxford University, writer and evolutionist Richard Dawkins points to a piece of memorabilia: A replica of the Australopithecus africanus skull ...