The remains of a female "vampire" have been unearthed by archaeologists at a cemetery in Europe, Polish researchers announced this week. A team from the Institute of Archaeology at the Nicolaus ...

In 2019, a prehistoric human skeleton was unburied along with the remains of wild animals. The burial may represent that of a female “shaman” who died around 12,000 years ago. The remains were ...

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.

The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.

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.

A 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton discovered and analyzed by a team of Northeast Ohio researchers is an important find that shows human ancestors were walking and running as well as we do ...

We don't know exactly why men are taller than women on average, but we have some genetic clues. On average, human males tend ...

Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found. There was never a chimp-like missing link between humans and today’s apes, says a new fossil-skeleton study that could rewrite evolutionary theory.

Human skeleton discovered in woods near U.P. border. Updated: Nov. 01, ... It has been determined that the remains belong to an adult female, but she has not been identified, ...

The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974. The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013.

In many U.S. schools, the human skeletons hanging in biology or art classrooms were actual remains. Here's the origin story of one set of bones in an Erie, Penn., high school.