In the 15 years since it was found in an abandoned mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the bizarre 6-inch skeleton has inspired fervid speculation, including theories of unearthly origins. It had ...

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 ...

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 ...

After more than two decades of work excavating and restoring the oldest hominid skeleton ever discovered in southern Africa, scientists have finally unveiled it to the public. According to CNN, the ...

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.