One thing Texas A&M University anthropology professor Mike Waters has learned through the years is this: if you have a good story to tell, the world will want to hear about it.
Skeletal remains found in a South African cave may yield new clues to human development and answer key questions of the evolution of the human lineage.
Vaughn Bryant spends hours at a time peering at slides of pollen samples, comparing them to track down the origins of honey with questionable heritage.