What’s hiding inside a bat cave in southern Spain? Not just bats. Tucked into the limestone cliffs near the sleepy village of ...

Recent discoveries, including exotic animal bones, vitrified brains ... archaeologists made a discovery as chilling as it is rare. Inside the skulls of two victims, researchers found pieces ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an ancient people left their possessions in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains of modern-day Russia. Centuries would pass before the site was found again — and a ...

In the first week of May, 1994—my sense of smell had been permanently altered. I could no longer smell anything clearly—not because my nose had failed, but because the stench of death had overtaken ...

they expected to find human remains and perhaps some artifacts. Turns out, they got much more than they bargained for. Inside the tomb, they found the remains of six individuals, including those ...

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 ...

"This evidence shows that crocodiles played a crucial role in the advancement of early human cognition, especially since many of the tooth-marked hominin bones belonged to young individuals ...

Subsequent searches were conducted at the location before the bone underwent forensic analysis to ascertain if it was human. READ MORE: Dad-of-four dies after hitting head and fracturing skull on ...

Subsequent searches were conducted at the location before the bone underwent forensic analysis to ascertain if it was human. It has now been confirmed by police that the bone is indeed human.

But in a new study, scientists say the bone may belong to one of the most elusive of human ancestors - Denisovans. Paleoanthropologists have long debated whether the bone came from a Homo erectus ...