For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed inside a rock-cut tomb. This unusual burial has now yielded a historic ...

The winter-killed deer I stumbled onto was already not much more than hide and bones, even though it was likely only a few months dead. Ravens, worms, beetles, bacteria and ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the Lapedo child’s curious blend of human and Neanderthal traits. The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and ...

Georgia Department of Transportation worker finds full body human skeleton remains near road on Interstate 75 in Peach County, coroner says. GBI investigates ...