In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

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

Each has an intricate structure of bones, nerves, and muscles ... Ears can vary, so what's considered normal anatomy of the inner or outer ear in one person may be different for another. For example, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper ...

You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under your nose.

The research reveals that early humans systematically and methodically produced bone tools 1.5 million years ago. This discovery marks a significant breakthrough in the study of human origins. Before ...

ROGERS -- Three children found what appeared to be human remains including a skull in Rogers ... appear to have aged significantly, with only bones remaining, and investigators will be working ...

A second person is expected to be charged in connection with the incident. CANTON ‒ Suspected human bones, plus 253 rats and other animals both dead and alive, have been removed from "deplorable ...

Suspected human bones, plus 253 rats and other animals both dead and alive, have been removed from "deplorable conditions" inside an Ohio home. A 45-year-old Ohio man who lived in a Canton home ...

He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult. He carefully places them in a ceramic rice ...