A new analysis of the 3.7 million-year-old Laetoli footprints in Tanzania suggests that Australopithecus afarensishad feet similar to those of modern humans, in addition to an upright gait. “They are more human prints than ape prints, and I don’t think that can be debated anymore,” said Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool. Mike Waters […]

Personal items that once belonged to convicts in Tasmania have been discovered under the floorboards of the Penitentiary Chapel in Hobart. Shane McLeod of the University of Western Australia re-examined 14 Norse burials in eastern England, and he concluded that there were more women among the Viking invaders than had been thought. “These results, six […]