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 ...

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.

Researchers found that proteins associated with inflammation impact bone mineral density, which could help identify early ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

YOU might not think much about the 206 bones that make up your skeleton.  That is until yours start to ache, or you suffer ...

Authorities in Waushara County are investigating an area where a human skeleton was found last week.On Thursday, just after 5 ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have created a groundbreaking prosthetic hand that can grip everyday objects like a human ...

On a path not far from marked human remains, pale and jagged fragments resembling bone or rock litter the desert floor. James Holeman, 59, the founder of Battalion Search and Rescue, based in Arizona ...