The human brain sometimes avoids decay for millennia while the rest of the body turns to bones.

Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...

Uncover 25 shocking new discoveries about our ancient human relatives. From Dragon Man to new Homo sapiens origins, rethink ...

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some ...

An old iron fitting found among scrap metal in eastern Poland has turned out to be part of a burial that disappeared from the ...

The study focused on two unusually complete Neanderthal pelvises. The Dederiyeh infant, though only a toddler, already ...

What did ordinary people really eat in premodern Japan, beyond the dishes described in cookbooks and the bones discarded at ...

Built with fitted stone and a clay-like material that may have helped retain liquid, the unusual structure has left ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

If they have no ancestors or descendants, then who are they?

Neanderthals had more robust heel bones than we do, and while genetics probably accounted for much of this difference, modern ...

On the Siang Khuang Plateau in northern Laos, archaeologists have discovered an unusual burial inside one of the famous stone vessels of the Valley of Jars. The remains of at least 37 people were ...