How is skeletal evolution studied? Morphological alterations that contribute to human skeletal structure have been extensively studied in paleoanthropology. Aside from standing height, it has been ...

Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

A 12,000-year-old skeleton found in Vietnam shows early evidence of violence, with a man surviving months after being wounded ...

Researchers found the skeleton of a human (pictured) and dog left behind by a tsunami that destroyed coastal communities along the Mediterranean Sea some 3,600 years ago. Proceedings of the National ...

The skull was shattered by a rock falling from the cave ceiling, but it was still sufficient to reconstruct nearly the entire ...