Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...

The brains of today’s birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioural complexity rivalled only by mammals. But ...

There is a dearth of well-preserved fossils from the early stages of avian evolution. The fragility of bird bones makes their ...

A rare 80-million-year-old fossil bird skull is helping scientists decode how modern bird intelligence evolved.

Corporate funding for LEONARDO da VINCI was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by The Better Angels Society an ...

Mammoths (Mammuthus) are prehistoric beasts that roamed tundra ecosystems during the last ice age (2.6 million to 11,700 ...

The map shows species of several genera. The oldest are Sahelanthropus, Orrorin, and Ardipithecus, which are the most ape-like in anatomy. Fossils of Australopithecus, Kenyanthropus, and Paranthropus ...

The Art of Memory is an anatomy and history of the ‘memory palace’, an ... Archival photographs and other illustrations in ...