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 ...

Professor Mason Dean researches how armoured tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintains continuous covering as the animals' ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal puppets will be performing in cities from Central Africa to the northern tip of Norway to raise ...

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 ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

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