The discovery of fossilised human remains in the Sahara Desert has marked a new era in research on the history of human evolution. Researchers have discovered skeletons dating back 7,000 years that do ...

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart Jack Tamisiea What does it mean to be human? This question, deceptively simple and imbued ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...

WASHINGTON -- The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, ...

Banner image: A petroglyph of a horse in the Ferghana Valley of Kyrgyzstan. (Credit: William Taylor) As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it ...

The study of human skeletal biology has advanced markedly through the integration of high‐resolution imaging, geometric morphometrics and archaeological data. Detailed analysis of long bone ...

The first 'blueprint' of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of arthritis, and highlighting cells involved in conditions that affect skull and bone ...

These weird archaeology news stories are strange, fascinating and sometimes totally unexplainable The post 13 of the Weirdest Discoveries Archaeologists Have Made appeared first on Reader's Digest.

Finding fossils like shark teeth, crocodile teeth, whale bones and even a human bone along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay is not uncommon, but two weeks ago, a Calvert County man made an amazing ...