Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

UCC graduate, Glenn Gibney, tells Sarah Horgan about his work over the last decade to piece together the stories of people's lives from centuries ago through the analysis of their bones ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

The skull found by workers at San Fernando, Catamarca province has a structure that differs markedly from that of a ...

Tourists at a beach house in South Carolina who thought they found fossils have accidentally discovered they found human remains at a forgotten 200-year-old burial site.

Ancient Maya burials, once thought to show human sacrifice, may instead reflect ancestral ties, according to a theory by Dr.

A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological ...

Authorities said that tourists visiting a South Carolina island came across centuries-old human skeletal remains.

Human and animal bones were found inside the 1,500-year-old Bromeswell bucket. A double-sided comb was also discovered.

Scattered across the newly created island, scientists have uncovered more than 6,700 fossils of fish, reptiles, and mammals ...