ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) A sheriff's spokesman says a bone fragment pulled from the backyard of a home where kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido once stayed is probably human. Contra Costa County ...

A new study from the University of Bonn claims that several mysterious fossilized bone fragments found since the 19th century may have been from a gigantic ancient sea creature called ichthyosaur.

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a "hobbit" who lived around 700,000 years ...

A recently found jawbone, arm bone fragment and teeth collected from an archaeological site in Indonesia revealed a diminutive ancestor of humans dubbed a “hobbit” who lived around 700,000 ...

Little is known about the Denisovans. But a new study is revealing how these enigmatic ancient humans survived in the Tibetan plateau, one of Earth’s most extreme environments.

A private investigation into the Adelaide Oval abduction mystery has uncovered an unusual piece of bone fragment, which forensic archaeologists believe could belong to human child. ‘Totally gone ...

A sharpened 80,000-year-old animal bone fragment, photographed from three angles, may have been used by Neandertals as the pointy end of a projectile weapon. L.V. Golovonova et al / Journal of ...

Police searching a home next door to where they say Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive for 18 years discovered a bone fragment, but authorities said they did not yet know if it was human.

A fragment of bone belonging to the murdered archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, has returned to England from Hungary for the first time in 800 years.