Archaeologists in Virginia unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs.

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A recent survey found that 70% of adults over 50 experience joint pain. Here's what it could mean—and the expert-backed ways to ease it.

A new analysis of 29 modified human bones from ... and the bones were later broken using a groove-and-snap method—a technique that involves cutting a deep line into the bone before snapping it. One ...

The victim had a distinctive mark on an arm, but officials could not yet say what that was either. They weren’t even sure how long the body had been ... the bag with bones and hair in it and ...

Our new study, using techniques previously used only on human remains ... Choppers had a broken right arm, which seemed to have healed badly. Her lower arm bones were bowed and much shorter ...

Three genes largely responsible for making sugars that a human body would consider foreign were ... The breastbone is cut in half with a bone saw. The ribs are opened outward to expose the ...

A human fossil discovery on the Indonesian island ... But the discovery of the humerus in particular helps shed some more light on the body size of Homo floresiensis. The team also found two ...

The discovery of a tiny arm bone suggests that an ancient human dubbed "hobbits" only shrank ... These ancient humans "reduced drastically in body size according to a well known evolutionary ...

Many questions about the diminutive species remain unanswered, but now, newly examined fossils—including the smallest adult human arm bone in the ... determine the body size” of this hobbit ...