A new study has borrowed a few tricks from palaeontological science to estimate whether or not the Rancor from Star Wars ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. Now a pioneering paleoanthropologist at ...

Depositions in legal cases shed new light on the way Philly and Penn treated bones pulled from the rubble 40 years ago.

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

“Most mammals have a bone in their penis, but you will almost never see a penis bone on display, at least in a UK or European ...

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...

A poisonous drug that can be used medicinally or to cause visual hallucinations, black henbane seeds have been documented at ...

Following these results, the Ballymacombs More Woman’s remains will enter the final conservation phase, where the body will ...