An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

An international research team reports an unusually well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton that dates to just over 2 million ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

A Maryland man recently made a remarkable discovery in the Chesapeake Bay: an almost-whole human skeleton that appears to be at least a century old. NBC Washington reported George Oliver, who lives in ...