Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis fossil, still reshapes how scientists explain human evolution nearly 50 years ...

A man fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD grabbed a terracotta mortar and held it over his head as volcanic ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

The bones of John Gillies, from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, were found by forest workers near Sweetwater Gap, Wyoming ...

Human remains found on a US mountainside nearly a year ago have been identified as a missing Scottish man. The bones of John ...

A rare Neanderthal fetus reveals that many traits distinguishing Neanderthals from modern humans likely developed only after birth.

The bones of John Gillies were discovered in a remote area near Sweetwater Gap in Fremont County, Wyoming last year ...

Scattered human bones found in Wyoming's rugged Wind River Mountains nearly a year ago have been identified as a Scottish man ...

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of ...

The whale was caught alongside its mother off the coast of New York in 1907 and belongs to a species that is now critically ...

Ardi is a female skeleton that lived over 4 million years ago and could be the key to understanding how and when early humans ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...