Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

The team used synchrotron imaging and supercomputers to reconstruct the face of the famous Australopithecus fossil.

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Authorities in Cleveland are working to identify two young half-sisters whose bodies were found buried inside suitcases on the city’s east side.

What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a skull and other human remains found along a remote dirt road in the Mojave Desert this week, officials confirmed. The remains were discovered around ...

HAMILTON, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A human skull found in a sewer last year belonged to an Ohio man who had been missing for years. The Butler County Coroner’s Office officially announced Tuesday that ...