When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...

Since 2021, a photograph that claimed to show a "crab-like" human skeleton recovered from the "Le Lanchon experiments on human evolution" has circled some corners of the internet, prompting both ...

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

A "truly extraordinary" Neanderthal skeleton covered in "cave popcorn" is shedding new light on some of the mysteries of human evolution. Known as the "Altamura Man," it is one of the best-preserved ...

For decades, the narrative of early human history has been meticulously pieced together through archaeological digs, genetic analysis of modern populations, and the study of ancient remains. We've ...

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As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it change the way your skeleton looks? The answer, according to archaeologists from the University of ...

Researchers found the skeleton of a human (pictured) and dog left behind by a tsunami that destroyed coastal communities along the Mediterranean Sea some 3,600 years ago. Proceedings of the National ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.