A grave digger found in possession of a human skull without court authorization has been sentenced to eight years in prison ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

“Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short, carved instruments made of two opposing chambers where air could clash ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

DNA has identified remains found in Mendocino County in 2012 as Warren Hawkins, missing since 1986. The cold case is now an ...

A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull ...

A new reconstruction of a woman from a 17th-century "vampire" burial reveals a young-but-sickly woman whom villagers feared ...

Remember when Anthony “I Am the Science” Fauci showed up for congressional hearings wearing two masks, knowing full well that masks didn’t prevent the transmission of COVID?

It is a triumph that most of the 8 billion humans alive today are living relatively happily and, thanks to modern medicine, ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...