I’m going to start this blog with what may seem like a blasphemous claim: Dinosaurs are not the coolest creatures of prehistory (sorry, Dinosaur Tracking). Hominids are. Most people don’t know this.

The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

Skull fragments from a 2-year-old child (exterior view, top left; interior view, top right) that died 1.5 million years ago contain evidence of anemia. The blood disorder can lead to very porous bone ...