The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

A striking discovery in northern Argentina has reignited curiosity about the origins and cultural practices of ancient ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

Police are probing a human skull believed to belong to a missing sex worker from Thai 'Sin City' Pattaya. Officers found the severed decomposing head near a pond in a remote area of neighboring ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to ...

A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological ...