Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Jonathan Gerlach was arrested Jan. 6 at the cemetery with a bag containing human remains of children and skulls, along with ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce.

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

Men, Magneto, supervillain and CEO of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, wants to destroy humanity – and in the first X-Men ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...