The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by ...

Lucy was often described as "the grandmother of humanity", but more recent discoveries suggest she may have been more like an ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

Last month, Ellen Konyak was shocked to discover that a 19th-Century skull from the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland ...

Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy said she has been told of human remains frequently auctioned "disguised as modified items or ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Ranging from a threatening hiss to a blood-curdling scream, the sound of the Aztec death whistle is as creepy as the ...

Days after a human skull and bones washed ashore on a beach in Palos Verdes Estates, authorities are still trying to identify the decedent and the cause of death, officials said. A passerby found ...

Illustration of just one of almost a thousand skulls Morton and colleagues collected. Crania Americana by Samuel Morton, CC ...