Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished ...

Technological advancements in the past decade have now made it possible to date the oldest of the tools to about 20,000 years ...

A battered fossil leg bone discovered more than 20 years ago ... show that a species called Sahelanthropus tchadensis was an ancient human relative that walked on two feet 1.

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about humans outside the male/female gender binary.

What may be the earliest-known human ancestor, an ape-man called ... is based on a reassessment of three fossilized limb bones — a femur from a thigh and two ulnas from forearms — found ...

A recent discovery of human bones in Lund, Sweden, has challenged previously held scientific beliefs about the treatment of ...

Instead, they are the bones of an ancient bear ... bone from the upper arm and the end or head of a femur bone from the leg of a human who had lived more than 20,000 years ago.

High above her head she held a human femur, the largest bone in the leg ... As SAPIENS columnist Stephen Nash wrote of an ancient Puebloan woman who suffered a fall and received medical care ...

Inside the tomb were exquisite funerary offerings befitting a king, including a mosaic jade mask, rare seashells, and inscriptions carved into human thigh bones. Incised femur bone discovered inside ...

An ancient murder mystery appears to have been ... workers recently stumbled across a human femur bone. Upon digging further, a team of archeologists found another leg bone, a pelvis, and a ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.