Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show became an instant cult classic after its release in 1975, but some fans may have no idea that real human parts can be spotted in the background of one terrifying ...

Ceramic artifacts and a bread oven made from repurposed materials show how survivors of the Mount Vesuvius eruption returned to Pompeii after AD 79, research suggests.

A traveller passing through customs at a US airport was caught with suspected human bones wrapped in tinfoil that they ...

After years of keeping quiet about human remains found at a Queensland island during the renovation of a resort in the 1990s ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur has been described from fossils found in South America, and to say they are intimidating is an understatement. With a thumb claw that makes the human hand look puny ...

We have recovered a few parts of a human skeleton from a village in Kalna. We have sent them for osteological age estimation.

Tasmanian pathologists retained 177 samples of human remains from autopsies for use in a museum without the consent of the ...