The skeleton was discovered in 1994 in the Ethiopian Desert and belonged to the species Ardipithecus ramidus. Further investigation revealed that Ardi could walk upright like humans, but had ape-like ...

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 ...

Finding fossils like shark teeth, crocodile teeth, whale bones and even a human bone along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay is not uncommon, but two weeks ago, a Calvert County man made an amazing ...

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 ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

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