Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales ...

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Mystery surrounds the discovery of human remains found in an abandoned ... had not been seen in almost two years. Analysis on the bones identified them as Michael Schilz, a 59-year-old fugitive ...

The US' history goes back thousands of years, thanks to a wealth of archaeological sites that give insight into the first ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

Archaeologists working in northern Guatemala (formerly the Mayan city of Dos Pilas) recently discovered fragments of more ...

The hollow bones were turned into ancient snuff tubes, and were found in stone chambers inside a prehistoric ritual site. It's called Chavín de Huántar, a ceremonial site high up in the ...

H. naledi, in contrast, is unusual in showing a human-like signal in its proximal phalanges (the bones that articulate with the palm) but an ape-like signal in its intermediate phalanges (the ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands. Researchers investigated variation in finger bone morphology to determine that South ...

Myles Grimmett had a bone transplanted from his leg into his arm when he was 5 years old in a groundbreaking surgery that saved him from amputation Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.