where he is researching the evolution of the human jaw. The Illinois native, who plans to spend an additional year conducting ...

A new study reveals that bone-cracking hyenas uniquely maintain bite efficiency as their teeth wear, unlike other carnivores.

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

These findings suggest that mammalian ancestors experimented with different jaw functions, leading to the evolution of 'mammalian' traits independently in various lineages. The early evolution of ...

The animal classification that would eventually spawn the human ... evolution by millions of years. Scientists say the fossilized bone appears to represent the oldest example of a type of jaw ...