The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Discovered in 1998, the skeleton of the Lapedo child, a hybrid between modern humans and Neanderthals, has long intrigued ...

Mexico’s attorney general has reported irregularities in an investigation by state authorities into an alleged cartel killing ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Prosecutors in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have confirmed the discovery of many clothing items and bone fragments by ...

The cause of death was ruled blunt force trauma to the head in a homicide, but the investigation was never able to ID the ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Five years after the pandemic started, we look back at some of the most memorable photos that were taken during the global ...

A remarkable discovery in Thailand has rewritten the story of human habitation in the region. Archaeologists have unearthed ...

A police investigation has been launched after skeletal human remains were found in a wooded area near Stoke-on-Trent. The remains were found by a member of the public on land near Festival Park in ...

A musculoskeletal android is designed to mimic the structure and movement of the human musculoskeletal system. Unlike ...