Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

Initial excavations found bones from the arms, legs, fingers and breastbone, police said. Because the body had been well ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Gela (Greek: Γέλα), Sicily, have unearthed a well-preserved bone repository ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

Cumbrian historians are worried the area's heritage could be under threat if plans for a nuclear waste dump near prehistoric sites is given ...

Stone-Age cannibalism, elephant seals act as deep sea sentinels, rabbits eat their own teeth, and our ears used to be gills.

Researching the Origin of Scattered Bones in a Tomb, Results Leave Them Stunned Studies of ancestry took great interest in ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, ...

An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...