The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The tool can estimate the biological sex of a skull with 97 per cent accuracy, outperforming the 82 per cent accuracy of human assessors, and it works five times faster. AI took a different route ...

On a summer's day in 1958, a walker in Salford found a human skull. Discovered in a peat bog, the man noticed a piece of bone with 'teeth attached', before the remnants of a skull and rotting ...

Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous ...

Scientists thought a tomb with similarities to buildings from Ptolemaic Egypt had been erected in memory of Cleopatra’s half sister, Arsinoë IV.

Adding to the pain were the stark labels written on the shrouds: “Skull without a lower jaw”, “Bone fragments”, “Rib cage”, or “Upper and lower limbs”. Instead of names and ages ...

In the dead of night, the skull of Robert Burns was removed from the crypt where he lay. It was his second final resting place - and the poet was to be disturbed once more. A group of men intent ...

In the heart of Yunnan province, China, paleontologists have unveiled an incredible chapter in Earth's prehistoric history. A massive dinosaur skull unearthed in the Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, is diving ...