An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

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A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

A Maryland man recently made a remarkable discovery in the Chesapeake Bay: an almost-whole human skeleton that appears to be at least a century old. NBC Washington reported George Oliver, who lives in ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

The Rowan County Coroner's Office says search teams have recovered more skeletal remains in the southeast part of Rowan County. The Rowan County Coroner's Office announced on Facebook that the search ...