An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Scientists have, for the first time, rebuilt ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) using DNA from archaeological human remains that are more than 2,000 years old. The research, ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...