Ancient DNA from 9,000-year-old skeletons found in South Africa reveals genetic continuity, refuting theories about waves of ...

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often ...

Three human skulls lie in a row on a disk of black cloth – not the bones themselves, but small wooden tokens representing an uncomfortable part of the World Museum’s collection of human remains. This ...

Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History ...

Last week, the archaeologists were finally able to remove the topsoil. Beneath it, they found the remains of a Viking woman ...