A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A skeleton found in the Lake Turkana Basin area of northern Kenya is the most complete set of remains ever found of Homo ...

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

DNA analysis of a skeleton in Italy uncovers a rare dwarfism case from 12,000 years ago, marking a major milestone in genetic ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Keith Rittmaster walked out of his trailer, arms filled with shovels, buckets and brushes. It was the day of the big dig, and Rittmaster led a group of 14 volunteers through a “Secret ...

In the past decade, a burst of research has debunked the unflattering reputation 19th-century scientists pinned on Neanderthals. We now know that they were creative, caring, and cognitively similar to ...

Researchers have identified the biological process of mineralization that occurs in a young coral that shifts from the plankton (swimming) stage to the 'settled' stage in which it forms the skeleton ...

For more than a year, Harvard researcher Ian Wallace scoured the country for skeletons. Thousands of them. No grave-digging was involved. Wallace unearthed the bones in academic collections that ...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to let scientists study one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North America. The ruling, which overturned a decision by government officials to give ...

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