Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl.

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

Natural Trap Cave is a pit in northern Wyoming into which countless animals have fallen and met their untimely demise since the Pleistocene. Paleontologists today find the cave a treasure trove — a ...

The Collier County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and found multiple bones, including jaw fragments, a femur, possible ribs, and a skull fragment. The bones appeared to have been buried ...

During the original survey, excavators uncovered a series of four stacked skull caps in one part of the cave. Ritual artifacts recovered alongside the bones — such as obsidian blades and red ...

Between 1995 and 2013, a skull and bone fragments washed ashore on the beaches of South Jersey, including in Longport, Margate and Ocean City. Having made little progress on the case known as ...

Human ancestor was in Eurasia nearly 2 million years ago, cut marks on animal bones suggest 2.2 million-year-old teeth reveal secrets of human relatives found in a South African cave ...

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