Aylin Woodward
Jurassic Park and other pop-culture depictions got the gaping maw of Tyrannosaurus rex wrong: The dinosaur had lips that covered its long, serrated teeth
The chompers of two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs didn’t protrude outside their jaws, a new study suggests ...
‘The level of infrastructure is mind-boggling’: Laser mapping reveals sprawling Mayan ruins in Guatemala dating back 2,000 years
Vast Maya kingdom is revealed in Guatemalan jungle: Archaeologists identify a sprawling network of ancient ruins using laser mapping technology ...
ACL tear? One of athletes’ greatest fears can be repaired – without surgery but with biologics
Treatment for a torn ACL typically involves surgically reconstructing the ligament with harvested tissue. Moving beyond reconstruction toward restoration, or ...
13 discoveries in 2020 that have transformed what we know about human evolution
Here are some of the most eye-raising anthropological findings of 2020. … 2) Certain Neanderthal genes, researchers found, code for proteins ...
Like humans, chimpanzees focus on fewer, more meaningful friendships as they age
Young adults maintain many friendships, but as people grow older, they tend to winnow that group down to a select ...
Fox News fetes Chinese scientists claiming China made and intentionally released COVID virus. Turns out they are on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s payroll
A strange new paper claiming the coronavirus was a "laboratory product" quietly made its way into a repository of preliminary research ...
Past decade taught us how wrong we were about human evolution, including when our ancestors left Africa
In recent years, anthropologists around the world have discovered new human ancestors, figured out what happened to the Neanderthals, and pushed ...
Hominids in love: Humans and Neanderthals may have mated more than 219,000 years ago
If modern humans didn’t reach Europe until about 60,000 years ago, how has DNA from them turned up in a ...
When loud noises interrupt conversations, your brain fills in the blanks
Noise is everywhere, but that’s OK. Your brain can still keep track of a conversation in the face of revving ...