One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

THE DISCOVERY A small excavation, just two square meters. And from the deepest layers, prehistoric human bones began to ...

Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation ...

The discovery of these skeletal remains rewrote Australia's history books. Decades later, they're at the centre of a court ...

How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.