Osteobiography involves the analysis of bones and other tissue. It is more commonly used in archaeology to reconstruct the ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Egyptian Empire Was Built Around Cruelty, Skeletons With Iron Shackles Found in 2,300-Yr-Old Gold Mine Reveal Grim Reality ...

We don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just ...

A young woman who lived and died more than 2,000 years ago left behind remains in China that are unlike any we've seen previously.

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Aloe vera has long been claimed to have medicinal and nutritional benefits, but our study shows it also holds great potential ...

The Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris is taking part in the Nuit des Musées, this Saturday, May 17, 2025. A great ...

Chimpanzees helped to make PG Tips tea famous with their iconic TV ads in the 1970s. But what happened to these animals afterwards? Our new study ...

The coelacanth, a 400-million-year-old ancient fish, was assumed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1938, revealing the ...

The legendary robbers Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas were executed by guillotine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, Jacob Fidelis ...