The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises ...

The confounding discovery of a human femur has created a mystery in the dense woods of rural North Carolina. More bones have ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton ...

You might think killer Ed Gein may have been one of the worst, having used the skulls of his victims as everyday eating bowls ...

A couple walking the shores of Southern Sardinia were stunned to stumble on what appeared to be a human skeleton near the beaches of Nora. Ty Sembrat was hiking around the coast with his girlfriend ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones ...

The constant changes in the methods of study and exploration of the planet mean that evidence of life on Earth is being found ...

Scientists have uncovered human remains beneath the Antarctic ice, a discovery that has the potential to reshape our ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...