A team of French and Swedish researchers have presented new fossil evidence for the origin of one of the most important and emotionally significant parts of our anatomy: the face. Using micron ...

Would you starve for the right to vote? Early 20th century women’s suffrage leader Alice Paul did. She and other suffragists used hunger strikes to amplify their demand for enfranchisement. An HBO ...

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A newly discovered fossil "treasure hoard" dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first jawed ...

Scientists describe the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. Their study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates. In an article in the journal Nature ...