Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

A remarkable discovery in Thailand has rewritten the story of human habitation in the region. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest human skeleton ever found in the country. This finding pushes ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

The ochre-stained skeleton of the roughly 4- or 5-year-old child—experts believe the body was wrapped in a painted animal skin for burial in the Lagar Velho rock shelter—when found “exhibited a mosaic ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals—an extinct family known as mixodectids—and humans occupy relatively close branches on the evolutionary tree. "A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

They instead dated the charcoal and animal bones around the skeleton to between 27,700 and 29,700 years ... the skeleton by measuring part of a protein that's found primarily in human bones. Examining ...

They instead dated the charcoal and animal bones around the skeleton to between 27,700 and ... part of a protein that's found primarily in human bones. open image in gallery Forearm bone fragments ...