A 1,400-year-old human skull with an almost cube-like shape has emerged from the soil of central Mexico, offering an unusually sharp window into how ancient families literally molded the bodies of ...

Bolivian gravediggers unearth human skulls from the communal plots in La Paz’s sprawling General Cemetery to prepare for tomorrow’s party. Shovels cut through the sour soil until the unmistakable ...

Pet owners have long joked that their dogs and cats are starting to look alike, but new research suggests that convergence is ...

Researchers at the Neolithic ritual center of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey have discovered this fragment of a human skull (below), one of three that were carved and ...

BOSTON — Authorities have announced an update on a startling discovery made by workers in Boston’s Seaport last week. Construction workers at the Black Falcon Terminal dug up what appeared to be a ...

While excavating a cemetery full of medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists discovered the remains of a middle-aged man with two stab wounds on his head and a bashed-in knee, suggesting he died in ...

The Altamura Man was discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1993. K.A.R.S.T. PRIN Project Neanderthals had a distinctive appearance. Before they died out roughly 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens’ ...