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

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 ...

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 discovered 1.52 million-year-old hand and foot fossils of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei, near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

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 ...

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

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

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

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