Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

I broke its neck. When making a vase at the potter’s wheel, I torqued its slippery neck clear off the pot as I tried to thin ...

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...