She wasn’t especially tall. Her testosterone levels weren’t unusually high for a woman. She was externally entirely female. But in the mid-1980s, when her chromosome results came back as XY instead of ...

A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

A unique opportunity to assess in vivo body composition was provided by a single direct cadaver analysis in a patient who willed her body to the authors' laboratories, having had an isotope dilution ...

Over the years, archaeologists have developed ways to learn about people’s origins, diets, and even their jobs from their remains. But these techniques are controversial under normal circumstances, ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

The research team from Bournemouth University intends to further examine the burials to uncover new clues. DNA is being tested to determine if the young women were outsiders or part of the community.

March 22, 2018 - In 2003, scientists made a surprising discovery of a 6-inch mummified humanoid skeleton in the Atacama region of Chile with an estimated bone age of about 6-8 years old at the time of ...

The Chottanikkara police unearthed a grim discovery on Monday evening when they found human skeletal parts, including a skull, inside an unused refrigerator in an abandoned house near Eruveli Palace ...