In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

The study of human skeletal biology has advanced markedly through the integration of high‐resolution imaging, geometric morphometrics and archaeological data. Detailed analysis of long bone ...

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

Authorities are investigating the discovery of human skeletal remains found in northern Wisconsin near the border with Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. On Friday morning, Oct. 28, a hunter came across a ...