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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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 ...